Voters Have 'Doughnuts With Doheny'

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports:

SARANAC LAKE - A small crowd joined congressional candidate Matt Doheny here on Saturday morning to talk politics and nosh on some doughnuts.

The Watertown businessman and former Wall Street financier hosted his latest "Doughnuts with Doheny" event at the Saranac Lake Adult Center. Local residents and elected officials attended the event, which lasted about an hour.

Doheny, one of the Republican challengers to U.S. Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, in this year's election, was introduced by Ray Scollin, the Republican state committeeman for Franklin County and chair of Saranac Lake's Republican committee. Two years ago, Scollin supported conservative Republican Doug Hoffman, an accountant from Lake Placid, who eventually dropped out of the race.

Speaking Saturday, Scollin sounded like an adamant Doheny supporter.

"I don't know if you've paid much attention to congressional candidates in the past, but it's my opinion after being in politics after a while that I've never seen such a hard-working congressional candidate in my lifetime," Scollin said. "Somebody who travels the North Country, tries to understand the issues, talks to everybody who will listen - he is truly a hard-working guy. And I think when he gets elected - which he will - we're going to have somebody who will continue to work as hard in Washington for us."

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