Paterson Calls A Special In NY-29

[Lief 🗽]

And it couldn't run concurrent with the primary because.....

Because New York still lives in the Dark Ages when party bosses controlled everything they could grab onto.  Heck, in this case, Patterson is clearly violating the state law on filling Congressional vacancies.

No, running it concurrent with the primary would have given party bosses more power, because there wouldn't have been a primary. Think before you go making incendiary statements.