Posted on 06/07/2006 11:16:19 AM PDT by areafiftyone
ALBANY - State GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik, who just knocked William Weld out of the race for governor, will now try to do the same with Republican Senate hopeful Katherine "KT" McFarland, The Post has learned.
Minarik, backed by other GOP leaders, will publicly urge McFarland, a Reagan-era Pentagon official, to drop out of the Senate race today "in the interest of party unity," a source familiar with Minarik's thinking said.
Minarik will urge GOP voters to rally around former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, who defeated McFarland, 63 percent to 36 percent, at last week's party nominating convention, as the best candidate to defeat Democratic incumbent Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"Spencer did better at the convention than John Faso did against Bill Weld, and Weld was gracious enough to step aside and avoid a primary. Steve hopes 'KT' will do the same," said the source.
"We need to rally behind one candidate in order to effectively challenge Hillary Clinton. John Spencer is the official designee of the party and he clearly has the support of the grass roots."
Spencer is more conservative than McFarland on social issues and would unite the Republican and Conservative parties behind a single candidate, as Faso has now done.
Minarik's appeal to McFarland will come with some urgency.
She has only until Thursday to notify the state Board of Elections that she doesn't want her name to appear on the Sept. 12 primary ballot.
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Looks like the nutcase is digging in her heels.
KT McFarland responds: I'm in 100%, all the way to November
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
New York State Republican Chairman Stephen Minarik called U.S. Senate candidate KT McFarland this morning and asked her to step aside in the Senate race for the sake of Republican “unity.” Below is a statement from Ms. McFarland.
“Eleven weeks ago I said I was running for the United States Senate to re-apply the skills and expertise I acquired while serving three U.S. Presidents to the challenges now before our country. In that time, I have worked diligently, assembling a top-notch campaign team and soliciting more than enough support of Republican Party leaders to get on the ballot in September. In short, I have earned my spot on the ballot in September and I intend to keep it. To do anything else would be to renege on my promise to the hundreds of people I have met in the last eleven weeks, who have supported me, often against the pressures of the party bosses.
These good people have put their faith in me as the best candidate to be the standard bearer of the Republican Party and challenge Mrs. Clinton in November. I have given them my word, and I intend to keep it.
“Democracy is a precious thing and I look forward to a primary campaign as an expression of democracy in action. Republican voters have a right to select whom they want to challenge Mrs. Clinton in November and a primary will give them the chance to take a good look at their options. In the coming months I will communicate directly with the 3.1 million Republicans in our state. I will listen to their concerns, and I will tell them about me, my background and my core philosophical beliefs of lower taxes, less government and a strong national defense. After that, they themselves will choose the candidate to challenge Mrs. Clinton…no one else.”
She's a fool who doesn't care about New York State!
Did you daughter wash very thoroughly when she got home??? Rinse and Repeat too? LOL I'm glad your daughter laughed I would have screamed in horror at the face! LOL
Just in case anyone wants to express their opinion:
Friends of KT McFarland
Phone:
212.628.7270
That's the problem. It won't be.
Yes, we can be sure of that, with pit bull Rollins in charge of the disgraceful smear campaign against Spencer and sweet little KT taking a back seat and saying it's all about the issues. I don't know what makes me angrier: Rollins or the pretense that the candidate is pure as snow.
"Real" upstaters don't consider anything south of Albany to be "upstate."
people on long island call westchester "upstate"!
(i think maybe even the Bronx is upstate. possibly manhattan north of 60th street, also.)
Upstate=the red bits, which is most of 'em :)
Very true!
Spencer is the man to bloody Hillary. The guy is right, McFarland should drop out.
(i think maybe even the Bronx is upstate. possibly manhattan north of 60th street, also.)"
lol! So no one really wants to admit they're from NYC? I have to get my son off LI. Will they let him out or will he need papers?
Anything west of Tenth Avenue is definitely New Jersey.
actually, i'm a lawnGUYlander.
one of the strangest of down-state geographical idiosyncracies is that people from queens, brooklyn, and long island do not consider queens and brooklyn to be part of long island.
looking on a map, they appear to be part of the island, but somehow they are not.
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