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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY - 8:57 a.m.: The rally is over. Clinton said Gibson is an honorable man who should be respected for his miltary service. But Murphy has a better understanding of the economy. Clinton said the tea party should be supporting Murphy because he supported a bill to prevent future bailouts. "If you don't want more bailouts, you'd better vote for your current congressman." he said. Clinton said Murphy understands new technology. The U.S. Share of manufacturng batteries for hybrid cars has gone from 2 percent to 30 percent Clinton said. Clinton said the health care bill is important....

Loudonville, NY. Entering the final week of the ampaign, Republican Chris Gibson has reversed an early campaign deficit and turned it into a 51-42 percent lead over Democratic Representative Scott Murphy, who is seeking his first re-election, according to a Siena (College) Research Institute poll of likely voters released today. Gibson has become much more known to voters over the last six weeks, with a positive three-to-two favorability rating. Murphy remains known to more voters, however, they are evenly divided between those who view him favorably and those who view him nfavorably. “Chris Gibson has completely erased a 17-point deficit...

BRUNSWICK -- Chris Gibson's first political awakening came in 1979. He was 15, watching President Jimmy Carter tell Americans to turn down their thermostats. His father was collecting unemployment, out of work from his job as an elevator mechanic. "I remember just thinking, 'Is this it? Are our best days behind us?'" Gibson recalled recently. Then he heard Ronald Reagan, with his "sense of hope, his sense of optimism -- and I was attracted to the message." The same thoughts occurred to him in the summer of 2009 when Gibson, a colonel in the Army, became "concerned" with a growing...

New York’s 20th congressional district has a problem. It’s an R+2 district, one that Bush carried 54 percent to 46 percent in 2004, and one that Obama carried by 3 percent, a classic swing district. But their Democratic congressman, Scott Murphy, is one of those so-called “moderate Democrats” who are never moderate when it really counts. He voted for Obamacare, and staunchly opposes repeal. He voted against a ban on federally funded abortions. He voted for cap-and-trade. Murphy likes to talk a lot about his strong views on pay-as-you-go, but he voted to raise the debt ceiling. He voted for...

Freshman Rep. Scott Murphy, locked in a tight re-election contest in upstate New York, released a political advertisement Wednesday that may be the election season’s most aggressive embrace of the health care law passed by Congress this year. The advertisement doesn’t so much extol the health care law’s virtues as it attacks his opponent, Chris Gibson, for wanting its repeal. “Chris Gibson would let insurance companies go back to denying coverage for pre-existing conditions; he would let them restore lifetime limits on coverage. Chris Gibson would eliminate mandatory coverage for preventive care like mammograms and colon screenings, and seniors would...

In Upstate New York lies New York’s 20th Congressional District, a largely rural district currently held by vulnerable freshman Democrat Scott Murphy. Murphy narrowly won the seat by just over 700 votes on March 31, 2009 in a hard-fought special election after two-term Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand resigned to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate. Republican Chris Gibson, a retired Army Colonel, will challenge Murphy this November to take back the 20th District in a race the Cook Political Report rates as a “Toss-up.”

Chris Gibson, a retired U.S. Army colonel and currently a candidate for U.S. Congress, said Monday he sees evidence of hope for this country’s renewal in the character of some of its soldiers now being remembered. He was speaking at Hudson’s Memorial Day service at the Fourth Street Park. Gibson said that on Sunday he had been to the town of Horicon, Warren County, for a ceremony honoring Horicon native Jeremiah Monroe. Pfc. Monroe was a combat engineer whose skill was to diffuse improvised explosive devices, which Gibson called “our enemy’s primary method of attack.” On Sept. 17, 2009, he...

ALBANY - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo slapped a subpoena on ex-GOP gubernatorial candidate John Faso in his probe of a massive pay-to-play pension fund scandal, the Daily News has learned. ... The timing of the subpoenas raised some eyebrows by coming just a month after a political action committee co-founded by Faso released an ad attacking Cuomo. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/05/20/2010-05-20_exgov_candidate_faso_also_target_of_ag_investigation.html#ixzz0onNlaN00

They were the difference makers on health care reform: House Democrats who flipped from opposing the plan to supporting it, delivering a win on President Barack Obama’s signature domestic issue. Now, they are also among the Democrats’ most vulnerable incumbents, and none is building a reelection message around their famous vote.

Kinderhook, NY – Former Congressional Candidate Patrick Ziegler has ended his campaign, endorsed Chris Gibson (R-Kinderhook) and joined the Gibson for Congress Team. Patrick Ziegler surprised many with his strong showing during the endorsement process where he won two northern counties, Warren and Washington. Chris Gibson said, “Patrick Ziegler distinguished himself during this process and has earned the respect of all concerned. I am very impressed with his character, passion for this country, commitment to conservative principles, strong intellect, and tremendous public speaking skills. We are elated to have him on our Team!”

Calling his campaign a move toward freedom and away from centralization and dependency, retired Army Col. Chris Gibson will challenge U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy in November for the 20th Congressional District seat.

New conservative candidates are emerging in New York House races ... updates are included in this thread. Perhaps the most exciting new conservative on the scene is Retired Army colonel Chris Gibson (R) in NY-20. (Recall that freshman Rep. Murphy was elected last spring in a tight special election over GOPer Jim Tedisco.) An Albany Times Union blog reports: "Retired Army colonel Chris Gibson of Kinderhook won an endorsement from the Clifton Park Republican Committee Thursday night. The members talked to Gibson as well as the other men looking to challenge Democrat U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy in the 20th Congressional...

In interviews with the AP, at least nine of the 39 Democrats - or their spokesmen - either declined to state their positions or said they were undecided about the revised legislation, making them likely targets for intense wooing by Pelosi and Obama. Three of them - Brian Baird of Washington, Bart Gordon of Tennessee and John Tanner of Tennessee - are not seeking re-election this fall. The others are Rick Boucher of Virginia, Suzanne Kosmas of Florida, Frank Kratovil of Maryland, Michael McMahon of New York, Scott Murphy of New York and Glenn Nye of Virginia. Several lawmakers' offices...

A fundamental urge for change and a subpar get out the vote program doomed Assemblyman Jim Tedisco's (R) congressional campaign... ..... About six months after President Obama won the White House, a race in which Obama's economic policies played a significant role featured Tedisco, who has been in public office for more than two decades, and Murphy, a venture capitalist who had never sought public office. "This race tended to be more of businessman versus politician," said one GOP strategist close to Tedisco's campaign when asked to offer a postmortem. "Fresh face [versus] guy who's been around for a while."Though...

Scott Murphy (D): 77,017 Jim Tedisco (R): 77,034 Difference: 17 Results as of 4:00 PM 04/07/09

ALBANY—Now it's Assemblyman Jim Tedisco by 97. The State Board of Elections just posted this spreadsheet showing updated tallies from Washington and Saratoga counties. Counties are completing a machine recanvass before they proceed with counting paper ballots, subject to court action. The total is 76,817 to 76,914. The lead between Tedisco and Democratic candidate Scott Murphy has gone back and forth in their race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress.

Democrats and Republicans are throwing schoolyard taunts at one another today, for profit. This fatal pillow fight has broken out in New York’s 20th and no one can agree whose pillow retained the most feathers. -- “They want to obsess about the 2000 election eight years later, but they can’t take it when Republicans point out the facts about them trying to replicate their shady win-at-all-costs tactics in New York,” Spain said. “We aren’t going to let them pull a Franken on Jim Tedisco and now they are responding with panic-ridden emails to their liberal supporters.” -- What are the...

Michael Barone analyzes what we know about the nearly 6,000 absentee ballots that were returned but not yet counted in the NY-20 special election. "Of those 5,995 votes, 48 percent were cast by registered Republicans, 36 percent were cast by registered Democrats and 16 percent by others. That's a 12 percent Republican advantage, a little less than the 15 percent advantage Republicans have in total party identification. It suggests to me a pretty good Democratic absentee voter drive, since registered Democrats in an Upstate New York district are likelier to be behavioral Democrats than registered Republicans are to be behavioral...

NewMajority.com Thursday, April 02, 2009 Jim Tedisco will probably win the special congressional election now being prolonged in upstate New York. This is not hype, wishful thinking or a hope-based prediction. After a meeting of the minds that began at 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday night in Jim’s suite at the Saratoga Holiday Inn, there was genuine consensus among his inner circle: “Jim’s going to win.” As I previously reported, Tedisco’s political director in the NY State Assembly, Matt Dill, had concluded that Murphy was “just not going to take it” as early as Sunday night. In the end, he said,...