An anonymous tipster emailed over a spreadsheet - I love that, by the way, more, please - with the SRCC expenditures on various races this cycle.

What's fun about is that Dean Skelos, who we're just going to call Vendetta Dean from now on, is throwing millions of dollars out the window in wide, joyous arcs, pretty much with nothing to show for it.

Case in point: Craig Johnson. It's well known that Vendetta Dean hates Johnson with a passion, because the freshman Senator broke open the republican stranglehold on the Long Island delegation. For that reason, Skelos recruited a Sarah-Palin-wannabe, one Barbara Donno, to run against Johnson. Skelos sunk $604,789 into that race; however, in today's Siena poll, Johnson leads Donno by a margin of two to one. Say what you will about personal animosity, but maybe it's not the best way to allocate six-figure sums.

Another target of Vendetta Dean, apparently, is freshman Darrel Aubertine in the North Country; he had $656,949 spent on bringing him down, and leads his challenger by twenty points, in a district republicans held, literally, for a hundred years.

If I were a republican Senator anxious about my re-election, I'd have some unkind thoughts about Vendetta Dean. Pissing away over $1.3 million on offense, when your defense is crumbling around the state, is kinda stupid.