Daniel Hubbard wrote:

I'm nobody's "backup plan". 

Yes, you are. For these two valid reasons: 

1.  Frank Joyce's "Boy Scout"/"Rainbow" image/personna is not rooting any confidence that he's going to be crossing the wire in front of either Gatelli, or perhpas even the very beatable Fanucci. Rogan can easily take Fanucci out, but the crass Gatelli does has a voter base. She's working on increasing that with promises of sugar plums of the political kind as we speak. Voters don't need much of a promise, clean a lot up here, fill pot holes there, it's that shallow. This is a woman who has come through on many a promise over her 25 years, so she's going to be in the race going down the stretch. 
2. You weren't decisive about running due to the burden of issues with your very ill father. No one knew where you stood, so they moved on without you. Life happens that way. As we both know, your father was a Navy diver of the high risk kind, travelling the world as a member of a special elite group of divers. 200 feet down was just another day at the office for those guys. As the son of a man with balls bigger than a battleship, you have expectations to fulfill, like doing the right thing when a city is in trouble. Your father lived a wildly exciting life as a Navy diver, risking it under incredibly dangerous circumstances. As he bravely faces his final dive, it's my opinion that it would be a gift for him to see you "get in the water".  He would prefer to see you do that and you know it.  So, my humble suggestion is this: Get the fvck in the water! Take Gatelli out. It's obvious that Joyce cannot.    

To run on the R ticket in this city, or this nation for that matter, is suicide in the general.  The straight D vote will make sure of that.  The time to run as an R has already passed, anyway.

See Doherty vs. DiBileo 2005 - lost by 5% margin after winning a write-in on the R side.

Mrs. Evans has made her choice........Why would I enter this race at this stage in the game?  To be labeled a spoiler?

This is Scranton, not Evansville. Her choices are her's. Not everyone's. Too many people are not confident in her choice of Joyce. Look at it this way, if Joyce is turning off loyalists, who will vote for him no matter what if there's no better choice, what will the fencers be thinking?  At least on this day, and granted, that is subject to change, a lot of people want a better choice.  I get the spoiler thing, but it's viewed best with hindsight. Foresightedly speaking, Gatelli will trash Joyce for no other reason than the undecideds will not like what Joyce presents when they meet him, if they ever do.  Very often, people only hear about candidates from others. The word on Joyce resonates 'wimp', which is fine if he follows Evans' lead on council, but there's the issue of getting him elected first.     

Right after I posted earlier in this thread I recieved a call from Dave Evans telling me that this team was going to be the "top vote getter" in the race and that there was no way that these guys could lose with Janet carrying them.  The team had been picked and Janet was not changing it. 

"Dewey Wins". Of course, Dave Evans is going to say, "the team is going to be the top vote getter".  Did you expect, "We think we're going to be hammered"?

After Courtrights fundraiser I recieved a call from a big Evans supporter telling me that if I ran on the D ticket that I was going to be a "spoiler" for the Evans team and that there would be "bad feelings" between me and the Evans camp.

Others disagree.  I'm among them.  Joyce is scary.   

Janet made her choice and you guys have to live with it. 

Says who?

I'm not going to put my time, money, energy into this race just to split votes and be labeled a spoiler by a candidate and a team that I thought was on the same page as I am.  Thats the problem with agendas...They always get in the way.

Yeah, agendas. They're like *******s, everybody has one. Mine is beating Gatelli. What's yours?

Lets hope she is right.  Good luck.

That simple, eh?  Just "Good luck".  Maybe I should get my rocker out, shut this site down, stop doing what's right and what's good for this city, and make my final post, "Good Luck"?