Support Joe DioGuardi for U.S. Senate: Support People over Politics (New York)

Political Blog ^ | June 24, 2010 | Raquel Okyay

[Raquel]

Republican decision-makers in New York missed the boat – big time.

The U.S. Senate junior position currently held by a one-time “conservative” Democrat turned mouth-piece for Sen. Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, is probably the weakest seat in the state. According to a June 14 Sienna College poll, Gillibrand’s favorability rating is down six points from last month to a dismal 36%. Here is the perfect opportunity to show the rest of the country that even liberal New York is ripe for upheaval.

New York State Conservative Party got it right when they chose former Congressman Joe DioGuardi as their designated candidate to run against Gillibrand. DioGuardi has a long record of supporting a transparent government that works for the people not at their expense, and in an era of public demands for government restraint, Joe DioGuardi is the obvious choice.

In addition to being pro-life, pro-family and pro-America, Joe wrote the book on sound fiscal policy before it was popular in Unaccountable Congress – It Doesn’t Add Up (Regency, 1992).

Joe DioGuardi has written a courageous and practical book about the phony budgeting process Congress uses to sustain its financial profligacy. He has both a keen understanding of its accounting gimmickry and some excellent suggestions about how to straighten out our budgetary tangle” – William E. Simon, Former Secretary of the Treasury

Joe DioGuardi has the name recognition and long line of supporters needed to overcome an incumbent Democrat in New York, yet Republicans either naïve or paid-off, afforded a win to former Long Island Legislator Bruce Blakeman at the rate of 51%.

[gitmogrunt]

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[Maelstorm]

Conservatives in NY need to get their act together. Gillibrand should be gone as well as Schumer. There is so much material and they have connections with all the culprits of the economic collasp on Wallstreet and Schumer was the puts who helped start the fire which led to the first bank failures. I don’t know what to say. The gift horse is there someone needs to jump the hell on it and ride it for all it’s worth. Republicans and conservatives are running much stronger in the North East this year. The problem is the candidates who have stepped forward with the exception of Christie and a Brown have did little to differentiate and galvanize the national body politic. NY need not be an exception to the rebuke of Obama. We just need a brave man who can speak truth to power and do it by lifting up the principles that built this country. It is the easiest message in the world. It was good enough for our founding fathers and it appeals to the integrity and honor of all men and women.

[jersey117]

Maybe he could bring Cara on the campaign trail with him to pick up some young votes.

[Raquel]

I think Brown and Christie’s elections were unique and isolated. Republican candidates in New York have the right message, but Party Leaders are too busy wrangling deals to do what is right. The People are speaking up, and I’m praying for a sea of change in November.

[Maelstorm]

I don’t think so. If you look at polling the GOP is poised to pick up seats in the North East. The conservative is running strong in Maine for Gov. Vermont is even poised to elect a relatively conservative Republican. RI has had a solid conservative as Gov for sometime though it is questionable whether he will be succeeded by an equally conservative replacement.

That aside, if you look at the difference it was one of message and the essential idea that conservatives can not play in the NE is just not true. I believe that the Tea Party has had an interesting effect though it may not be strong uniformly in the North East but the effect is to allow a person who is upset with the Republican party but is generally conservative to have a voice and it allows them to apply their energy to elect candidates who are conservative without respect to party labels even though the result is more Republican support. It is a beautiful model and if it grows then we could see a real long term resurgence of conservatism and traditional ideas of liberty expressed by our founders taking center stage.

[supremedoctrine]

I’m glad you know about this.
When DioGuardi was a Congressman this was his biggest issue, the one that excited him and his followers the most;
McCain, also, probably still developing his notion of “rogue-nation rollback”,apparently found DioGuardi’s push to create a Greater Albania something he could get behind. Indeed, the whole project was very reckless, historically ill-conceived, but there are enough Albanians out there whose fuse is lit by these kinds of fantasies.
Sort of like the La Raza crowd who think we’re occupying land that is rightfully theirs.
I tried to warn my Tea Party group about DioGuardi, (he spoke at a big conference of theirs), but I was ignored. So
I quit.

[gitmogrunt]

If the Tea Party supports DioGuardi(fake name) they can go to hell! They really haven’t done their home work. Thanks for that bit of info...

[The Doctor]

Actually, Supremo, you are entirely wrong. Joe didn’t even realize he was an Albanian until after he was out of Congress. When he didn’t win a third term, he became an unpaid citizen activist, not a highly paid lobbyist.

[supremedoctrine]

THanks for the correction, as belated as it was in FR terms.
Your timeline makes more sense than mine, now that I look closer at the years. Emperor’s New CLothes posted a pic of Dio Guardi with McCain at a rally, where Dio Guardi is wearing a bright red and black scarf they characterized as
a “Nazi” scarf. Of course, they only ‘proved’ this by also posting a document of a Nazi division which had rolled into Albania which showed the same double eagle logo on the paperwork. (The Nazis had already expropriated the Albanian
logo (similar to many others using eagles and double eagles) for their paperwork) There was nothing wrong with the scarf, IOW, it was PURELY Albanian. But those folks at ENC must have really had it in for Dio Guardi for his extracurricular activitiess, post-Congress. I had thought it was his obsession earlier , while in Congress. NOW, though, it is (hopefully) a dead issue, and he’s just more concerned with getting back in Congress on the “Accountability” issue.