Politics Now

      WASHINGTON -- Jack Davis has some new political "consultants" -- and they just so happen to be the wives of the two men who will decide who gets the Independence Party's nomination for Congress in the 26th District.

   Davis calls them "consultants," and both he and Erie County Independence Chairman Anthony L. Orsini, husband of one of the "consultants," denied any impropriety.

   It's funny. We have plenty of these "consultants" here in Washington, and here, it's a code name for one of two things:

   "Political hack."

   And "recently laid off."

   But maybe "consultant" means something different in Western New York; I don't know. So fill me in: What, in this particular case, does the term "consultant" really mean?

-- Jerry Zremski