This is the district we live in and we are giving our full support behind Hoffman. Sick of rinos.
I don’t understand why they would nominate a liberal for a relatively conservative district. It is stupid and it hurts the Republican brand when it is recovering quickly. The vast majority of Republicans are clear conservatives fiscally and socially. Every poll shows this. Why does a small number in leadership continue to think they can win through surrender?
Cool. Good to hear from someone in the district.
Marysecretary wrote:
This is the district we live in and we are giving our full support behind Hoffman. Sick of rinos.
Accept my apologies for my Congresswoman from Florida. She is in Canton today campaigning for Scozzafava. She will not be our representative in 2011, and this is just one of the reasons why.
Besides donating to his campaign, is there anything that we can do to support Hoffman from out of state? I was seriously considering calling his campaign to offer to do "phone bank" work on election day from my home, if that is possible.
Worth repeating often.
ButThreeLeftsDo wrote:
Please stop by the FReepathon thread and give it a bump. If you haven’t donated yet, please give it some thought.
Thank you!
It was the county chairs from the 11(?) counties in the district. They met at a pizza parlor and selected the candidate. Hoffman wanted to run as a Republican. Scozzafava has more elected experience, and wanted the position on the ballot as well. She had already tried to get the Democrats to put her on this ballot, but they passed her over due to tax issues in her immediate family.
VeniVidiVici wrote:
GOP party bosses instead chose to nominate NY Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava
So who exactly did this nomination and why?
The locals messed up. That happens.
Once they made their choice, they went to the state party and the RCCC with it. The state chair has since resigned. The RCCC is where the big screw up happened. Pete Sessions (head of the RCCC) says that staffers messed this up and didn’t vet the candidate properly. If staffers were making these decisions, there is a serious management problem at the RCCC. They could have just let the locals run this campaign.
Actually, one of the reasons the locals chose Scozzafava is that she said she could finance her own campaign (with her campaign funds and her own fund raising abilities). But the RCCC had to go all in last week when she was running out of money.
When this is over, Sessions, Hensarling, and anyone else at the RCCC who had anything to do with this decision need to step down. And all Republican elected officeholders who supported Scozzafava need to be targeted in next year’s primaries.
The TEA Partiers and 9-12 groups need to start getting active in their local party operations. And we need to be selecting candidates now, in the next 4 to 6 weeks, to oppose those RINO's and party over principle DIABLO enablers who have been exposed in this NY 23 race.
Has everyone seen this: “The Most Important Number in Politics Today.”
Doug Hoffman is the Conservative alternative in this race (or Hoffman by PayPal).
Markos Moulitsas, founder of The Daily Kos has endorsed Scozzafava. Dede Scozzafava has also been endorsed by NYSUT, the largest labor union in New York, and an affiliate of the National Education Association.
Scozzafava also holds these positions:
Scozzafava has also run in past elections on the Working Families Party (a progressive party associated with ACORN) line on the ballot.
This lady isn’t a RINO, she is a big “R” libeRal democRat. Mark Steyn has coined the term DIABLO for her and others like her. Democrat In All But Label Only.
There are also at least 17 unprincipled DIABLO enablers in the house who have donated funds or otherwise supported to this LibeRal democRat's DIABLO’s campaign. They include Boehner, Cantor, Sessions, Hensarling, Brown-Waite and McCotter. I don’t have a full list, but I will be looking for it. These unprincipled enablers should be targeted for elimination in the primaries next year.
Also, perhaps those of us who donated to the RNC or RCCC should ask for our money back so we can support the conservative candidates of our choice.
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