Posted on 02/26/2007 7:31:18 PM PST by neverdem
It was Super Bowl Sunday. In a Nassau County hamlet, the Imbriale family was watching the game on a big-screen television when the kitchen phone rang.
On the other end of the line was a recording of a young woman's voice — fast-talking, cheerful, and dull — reminding them to vote for Maureen O'Connell, the Republican state Senate candidate running in the high-profile 7th District special election, two days away.
John Imbriale, a Republican, thought nothing of it and hung up. Fifteen minutes later, the phone rang again. The recording had changed, but the voice was the same, this time telling him that Ms. O'Connell has "worked for years to expand health coverage and believes we should have lower taxes."
By the time the Colts won, the Imbriales had received four more automatic calls, known as robo-calls. Their Hicksville home was one of perhaps thousands in the Nassau area that fended off an onslaught of robo-calls that night.
The next day, a frantic Ms. O'Connell sent an e-mail to supporters assuring them that her campaign was not responsible for something as unwise as harassing voters during the big game. She blamed the calls on her Democratic opponent, Craig Johnson, an accusation he denied. She also said she was filing a complaint with the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
As it turned out, the Super Bowl calls were not the only suspicious episode in the race, according to Senate Republicans. Three weeks after Mr. Johnson, a county legislator, defeated Ms. O'Connell and put the Democrats one seat closer to gaining control of the chamber, Republicans say they are using their legal staff to piece together evidence that links Democrats to at least four dirty tricks that took place during the last week of the pivotal race.
Allegations...
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Almost makes you wonder what the GOP has been doing for the past 6 years? Daly trying to cherry pick counties for recount, Dems recounting using their own voting machines, "spiking" Bush votes, keeping polls open in MO and allowing the Dims to claim the GOP committed voter fraud.
Wow what a shock............
Spitzer DEC choice draws fire from sportsmen, Conservatives
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No, really? I am shocked I tell ya, really shocked.
this was a majority Dem district - it had a republican incumbent - but was targeted by spitzer because of the demographics there. OConnell was pro-life, and the Dems ran a series of ads against her on stem cells, which went unrebutted. she lost.
self-ping.
Uh... yeah.... Dems, dirty tricks. Who would have thought.....
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Thanks for the update.
Which is further evidence that it is true.
That loss was a parting "gift" to NYS Republicans from pataki. He let arthur finkelstein run his policy making operation. AF is an out gay who is a leftist at heart. Thus the end of GOP power in NYS.
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