Nancy Naples Republican
Posted on 11/18/2004 6:32:32 PM PST by The Mayor
WBEN Newsroom - Thursday, November 18, 2004 09:09 PMBuffalo, NY (WBEN) - Erie County Comptroller Nancy Naples is conceding the race for the 27th Congressional District.
Brian Higgins will take office from Congressman Jack Quinn, who did not seek re-election.
Brian Higgins a liberal democrat has taken the seat!
Just what we need, a useless assemblyman going to congress..
Ping, did anyone else hear this on the radio?
From todays Buffalo News
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20041118/1051564.asp
Higgins' busy orientation features lunch with president
Attends D.C. meetings amid vote count here
By JERRY ZREMSKI
News Washington Bureau
11/18/2004
WASHINGTON - Brian M. Higgins' opponent hasn't conceded, but he's already
getting some of the perks that members of Congress enjoy - such as lunch
with the president.
President Bush invited newly elected members of Congress to the White House
earlier this week and ended up sitting at the same table as Higgins, a
South Buffalo Democrat who appears to have narrowly won a pitched battle
to succeed Rep. Jack F. Quinn, R-Hamburg.
"He was very folksy," Higgins said about the president. "It was exactly what
you'd expect. He was very candid. He talked about what he wanted to do in his
second term," such as reforming Social Security.
"I was doing more listening than talking," Higgins said Wednesday.
He and his newly elected colleague from the Southern Tier, Randy Kuhl,
R-Hammondsport, are in the Capitol this week for their "freshman orientation."
Both said their White House lunch was the highlight of a week that is heavy
on briefings about hiring a staff, renting office space and living part-time
in Washington.
Kuhl did not sit with Bush, but he bumped into the president on the way into
the luncheon.
"I told him how appreciative I was of his work, and how I looked forward to
working with him," said Kuhl, who will replace the retiring Amo Houghton, R-Corning.
For Higgins, this week's series of meetings comes as election officials in
Erie and Chautauqua counties count 13,000 paper ballots in his race against
Erie County Comptroller Nancy A. Naples, a Republican.
Naples has refused to concede, hoping those absentee, affidavit and emergency
ballots will carry her to victory in a race that Higgins led by about 4,000
votes after Election Night.
Bradley J. Stamm, executive director of the Erie County Republican Committee
and attorney for the Naples campaign, said Wednesday that the recount is continuing.
Election officials said it could conclude by the end of this week.
In the meantime, Higgins went to work in Washington, requesting to serve on two committees:
Transportation and Infrastructure, and Resources.
Higgins said that he would like to serve on the Appropriations Committee,
which doles out federal funds but that he doubts there will be an opening.
In making the transportation panel his top priority, Higgins would be continuing
the tradition set by both his predecessors, Quinn and former Rep. Henry J. Nowak,
D-Buffalo.
Higgins said he sees a seat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
as key to redeveloping Buffalo's waterfront, which was also a focus of his work
as an assemblyman.
This is the guy that says he will stand up to President Bush.
I hope he has a ladder, he hasn't been able to stand up to the corrupt assembly,
But, he's gonna stand up to President Bush........
Pathetic, isn't it? A guy puts up super-sized signs which say he'll keep jobs in WNY, and gullible voters believe him.
By the way, at my polling place, his signs were only about fifty feet from the door. Isn't it supposed to be 100 feet?
Yes all political signs and literature are forbidden to be within 100 foot of the polling places.
Shouls have reported it, or do what I would do, Move them..
I have put up enough signs over the years.
I was able to get out quite a few signs for her in N Buffalo.
She isn't even in my district, I'm stuck with slaughter.
I am sick that he won..........
and we lost.
Nancy would have been good in congress.
I hope she regroups and runs against him in 2 years!
Last estimate heard was that Higgins' lead would only go down to around 2,500 votes after the count was done, so she decided to throw in the towel.
But, we at least now have a representative for the "working man"...
Yup, he's all about the "working people"....
Unions control him as did silver..
D@mn.........I wish we would have won this one.
Untill Buffalo goes insolvent and wipes away the unions, this area is DOOMED!!!
Erie county is going to go belly up..........
Driven straight into the ground.
DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've lived here all my 47 years, my kids and grandkids live here and it's gotten bad at times.....but if they cut everything they are talking of cutting........I will seriously think about moving.
Very sad. :-(
And I heard today on 930 radio blurb, one of our state senators saying "the county got itself in this mess, we will see what it does to get itself out of it"
Scumbag liberal that keeps voting for more unfunded mandates that we have to pay for! I think it was Volker, A shameless RAT PIG!
That was Volker, Him and tokaz both loudmouths that do nothing but kiss silver and bruno.
I wouldn't blame ya for moving!
I've been seriously considering it myself! Been thinkin 'bout Texas.
we are going backward <- <- <-
Bummer about Nancy, but what did you expect from this area, change?
I vote for insolvencey now and get it over with.
regards,
crosdaddy
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