Bruno needs to focus on party's past blunders

The disdain that state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and Republican candidate Tom Dadey have for each other can be an easy distraction to what is Bruno's less-than-accurate recollection of what happened in 2004.

Here are the facts: Democrat David Valesky narrowly defeated long-time Republican incumbent Nancy Larraine Hoffmann, with Dadey coming in a distant third place while running on the Conservative and Independence party lines.

Now, with the 2006 election looming, Dadey is running again. He's accused Bruno of orchestrating Dadey's firing from the high-powered Clough Harbor engineering firm as punishment for entering the race. Bruno has denied such involvement, but hasn't hesitated to speak out against Dadey's candidacy.