Just Like Lincoln
On Wednesday night, the Erie County Republican Party will be giving its “Lincoln Leadership Award” to former Attorney General and rumored Brian Higgins challenger Dennis Vacco.
What exactly is it about Vacco that made the GOP associate him with – of all people – Abraham Lincoln? When you think of Lincoln, you think of leading the nation through an existential constitutional crisis, a civil war, emancipation, abolition of Southern feudal estates, and other pretty pivotal events that plotted the course of the United States into the modern world.
So what is it in Vacco’s past that makes the GOP consider him in the same breath with Lincoln? Indulge me a poll:
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$50,000 fine for casino lobbying allegations.
Drawing out the 1998 AG election uncomfortably long, using NYPD to conduct door-to-door investigations.
Columbo family scion claiming to have had a “hook” in Vacco’s office.