New York, NY
My first meeting with Vito Fossella worked out perfectly timing-wise with the Furthur Festival show out in Queens. I met Fossella at a West Side bar to grab a burger before taping a WCBS-TV segment with Marcia Kramer, the reporter who famously elicited the “I didn’t inhale” response from Bill Clinton about his marijuana use.
Fossella was smooth and articulate. I was very impressed. His U. Penn pedigree was on display and I hadn’t expected to see such a confident, well-practiced, attractive candidate. Bill Paxon and Dave Carney hadn’t oversold me. Despite trailing in polls due mostly to lower name ID than Democratic State Sen. Eric Vitaliano, I was now certain he would win this GOP leaning CD in Staten Island and Brooklyn.
Fossella also won me over by telling me one of his favorite songs was Dylan’s “Positively 4th Street.”