No glad-handing between Davis and Powers
It was a beautiful day for a parade, and thus a beautiful day for a politician, but that doesn’t mean Jack Davis was ready to shake everyone’s hand.
Sitting behind the wheel of his gleaming black Excalibur at Monday’s Labor Day Parade in Clarence Center, Davis saw one of his opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination for Congress, Jon Powers, approaching.
Powers, who has been engaged in an exceptionally bitter battle with Davis, went up to his opponent and extended his hand — and Davis refused to shake it.
Instead, growing flustered, he simply shouted: “Get out of here!”
Powers, after persisting for a moment, simply sulked away, muttering under his breath.
“I just wanted to say hello, and he wasn’t interested in saying hello,” said Powers, who also noted that he asked Davis — who has avoided debates so far — if he was going to debate.
As for Davis, he said: “He wanted to shake hands with me — and I called him a lying politician.”
In other words, Davis and Powers almost turned the Clarence parade into a real-life sequel to the recent ad for Alice Kryzan, the third Democrat in the race. Kryzan’s ad features a Davis look-alike going nose-to-nose with a Powers look-alike and the two men ending up in a scuffle.
Kryzan stayed out of the way of the fireworks in the ad — and at the parade. She instead spent her time jogging from one side of the crowd to the other, shaking hands with everyone and saying: “Hi, I’m Alice Kryzan, and I’m literally running for Congress.”
Afterwards, Kryzan went to say hello to Davis. He shook her hand and was as cordial as always, said Anne Wadsworth, Kryzan’s campaign manager.
