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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Nov 4 01:45:11 2009 I wasn't aware of the game being played since I don't listen to teabaggers and Oxymorons. Turns out that the soap opera behind the "urban/suburban hip hop" didn't work very well and the VERY first rule of politics is to "know your district." Whoever did the research on NY-23 should be shot.Hoffman was way behind on the consrevative party line going into this race where Scozzafava is a popular republican NYS Assemblywoman representing a large part of NY-23 in the state Assembly's 122nd AD since 1998. She served four years as a Village of Gouverneur Trustee and was Mayor of the Village of Gouverneur from 1993 until her election to the Assembly. As a Member of the Assembly, Dede has been appointed to the leadership position of Whip for the Assembly Minority Conference. She serves on the Assembly Banks, Codes, Ethics and Guidance, Rules, and Ways and Means committees. The Assemblywoman has been a vocal advocate for Northern New York by holding forums and serving on a number of task forces to address the diverse needs of the community’s citizens. She has served as a member of the Manufacturing Task Force, the Hunting and Fishing Task Force, and has held hearings for the Task Force on Agriculture. In other words, she was a big wheel in the NYS republican party. When the congressional seat opened up, the republican chairmen of all of the counties in the district unanimously voted for her candidacy for the office. UNANIMOUSLY. And because of the strong republican votership in the district, it was hers to have. Democrats put up Owens, a respected "outsider" from Mineola (born in Brooklyn) to run against her. In other words, "a carpetbagger" since "outsiders" are not often tolerated in many places in rural upstate. Owens is a managing partner at Stafford, Owens, Piller, Murnane & Trombley, where he specializes in business law, international law, and estate and tax law. He is also an adjunct professor in business law at State University of New York at Plattsburgh and in 2004, he was appointed by then-Governor George Pataki to the College Council at that university.[3] He has made regular appearances as a business analyst on WCFE-TV, a PBS television station in Plattsburgh. In essence, Owens was your run of the mill "show candidate" for the democrats in a race nobody expected a democrat to get more than 25% of the vote (as always). Hoffman was put up by the conservative party and started work at age 14, pumping gas in his hometown of Saranac Lake, N.Y. He served for six years in the National Guard and Army Reserves, earned his way through college, became a CPA, and is now managing partner in a large accounting firm. Despite mistruths to the contrary, Hoffman is not and was not a resident of the 23rd district at any time although he insisted that he would move to the district *if* he got elected first. This is the same thing that Tedisco pulled in NY-20. Hoffman had previously sought the Republican nomination. In July, when Scozzafava was nominated instead, he offered to help her. His email to her read: "Hi Dede, Congratulations and the best of luck in your candidacy. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Doug." Shortly thereafter, however, he contacted Conservative Party leaders, seeking support for his own candidacy. Hoffman later stated, "I never promised that I would support Dede Scozzafava." One Republican leader said that Hoffman, while seeking the Republican nomination, had "repeatedly" pledged to support the nominee. Hoffman then hooked up with the national GOP, demanding that something be done with "this woman interfering with my election" and that brought in the "big guns" and lots of money. To make this short, the amount of money coming into Hoffman's campaign along with the intrigue from the national party quickly outspent the republican party's funds as well as the democrats. In early polling back in September, the race looked like this: Scozzafava: 35% Owens: 28% Hoffman: 16% Which would have been typical for the political makeup of the district. But with the influx of so much national money, Hoffman's numbers went up to: Hoffman 51% Owens 34% Scozzafava 13% Clearly, Hoffman would win this walking away. UNTIL ... Rush Limbaugh (didn't know about this until tonight since I don't listen to him) said on one of his shows that "Scozzafava was screwing every RINO in sight" and other derogatory things about a fine, upstanding, WELL KNOWN republican Assemblywoman well known and largely respected throughout her district. Sarah Palin alluded to the fact that Ms. Scozzafava was picked by party bosses and not by a primary electorate. "Best of all, Doug Hoffman has not been anointed by any political machine," she wrote her supporters. "Unfortunately, the Republican Party today has decided to choose a candidate that more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race. This is why Doug Hoffman is running on the Conservative Party's ticket." The voters KNOW their 10 county "bosses" very well since they actually ELECT them. Then a parade of more and more "out of towners" descended into the district mouthing off various things that the locals KNEW to be completely untrue, and then came the loony teabaggers who annoyed the crap out of the locals. But that wasn't the final straw even though people were already getting tired of Hoffman's antics. Nope ... that special honor goes to Glen Beck, Fox News, the Today show and numerous other teevee types who had Hoffman on their shows. The voters, who had no real idea of what Hoffman was about or like got to see him right there in their livingrooms as dumber than dubya ... in ONE day, he dropped 20 points once he could be seen for what he is. A blithering idiot! So ... hint to the GOP ... upstate wants more of your "show us your loonies!" :) |
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