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Scozzafava Endorses Democrat After Dropping Out of N.Y. Congressional Race
Fox News ^ | 11/01/09

Posted on 11/01/2009 11:45:14 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, one day after Scozzafava dropped out of the contest.

Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Dough Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. But on Sunday, Scozzafava backed Democrat Bill Owens -- the announcement was made in a statement send out by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

"I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same," she said. "In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He will be an independent voice devoted to doing what is right for New York. Bill understands this district and its people, and when he represents us in Congress he will put our interests first."

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To: Behind Liberal Lines

This jackass takes $900,000 of the GOP’s money and does this.

I hope she gives back all that money. Fat chance.


421 posted on 11/01/2009 3:33:49 PM PST by Darren McCarty (We do what we have to do.)
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To: autumnraine

Were they, the GOP suckered, or were they all trying to sucker us? I still say the GOP is corrupt and corrupted. Who paid who for this nomination?

Not only is Dede’s true colors showing, so is the GOP’s.


422 posted on 11/01/2009 3:36:23 PM PST by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: Darren McCarty
This jackass takes $900,000 of the GOP’s money and does this.

The definition of the modern day politician.

Usually the GOP is the party of slightly lesser amount than the DNC however.

423 posted on 11/01/2009 3:37:08 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Blago / Scozzafava 2012


424 posted on 11/01/2009 3:37:52 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: PhiKapMom
along with the Chair of NY GOP who turned a blind eye

Don't kid yourself. The NY GOP Chair got paid for that blind eye. WE need to demand an investigation into this corrupted campaign.

425 posted on 11/01/2009 3:38:26 PM PST by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: edpc

I think this gives the election to Owens.


426 posted on 11/01/2009 3:38:53 PM PST by nikos1121 (Praying for -16 today.)
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To: rodguy911; mwl8787; Sarah Barracuda

Yesterday I was accused of not being “charitable” to scuzzy favors because I wasn’t up there kissing her left wing arse and weeping with gratitude that she gave up the ghost by stepping out of the race.
I replied that when she endorsed Hoffman, my charity would be boundless.
I reserve respect, gratitude, and charity for those who deserve it. Right now, I am feeling pretty vindicated. She is what she is. The RNCC that endorsed her is flatfooted and tone deaf.
My money went to Hoffman.
My respect goes to everyone here and Conservatives all over the country who told Newt and Mikey to stick the rino button on their collective butts.
I am not about to let them do what they did to Toomey in PA by backing Specter when Toomey could have won. Specter should have taught them something. It appears not.
If they do not learn from THIS, they can kiss Conservatives goodbye. Not because WE are leaving, but because we are sending THEM down the river on a garbage barge.
Go DOUG!!!


427 posted on 11/01/2009 3:40:42 PM PST by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1, 4 if by Thread.)
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To: AFPhys
The RNC “kingmakers” had nothing to do with Scozzy being put on the R line. There was a rotten deceptive process that some friends of Scozzy used to put her on it despite her having very little support from the Republican county chairmen.

I've heard other rumblings about this, but haven't seen it explained in such detail. If this is true, then the RNC, the RNCC, and every leading Republican who endorsed this woman was duped beyond all belief.

Pardon, if I can't completely suspend my disbelief at this point. It's a bit incomprehensible that the entire power structure of the national Republican party could be duped so easily, or be blindsided so badly by this woman who clearly had a voting record which could be checked.

If everything you say is true, then we need to add ineptness to the list of charges against the party leadership.

428 posted on 11/01/2009 3:41:30 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: NavVet
So who looks like the bigger Arse right now Newt or Steele

It's a tie.

429 posted on 11/01/2009 3:42:08 PM PST by dearolddad
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To: rodguy911
We may be stuck with having rinos at election time we actually need them than,

We need them for what at election time? A seat warmer? No, I won't vote for anyone who is a RINO. Put the dem in place...at least then we know what the heck we're dealing with. The RINO can be bribed, bullied, and corrupted. It has no spine or morals, in which case it is worse than a liberal.

430 posted on 11/01/2009 3:44:28 PM PST by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: Mojave

Aimless herd? What - do you support the Democrat?


431 posted on 11/01/2009 3:45:24 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Windflier

Have you ever seen how they operate! They were probably all drunk!


432 posted on 11/01/2009 3:45:41 PM PST by GretchenB
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To: Sine_Pari

All this sounds like the perfect storm for eight years of BHO. Notice how the media has begun to stoke the fires of a ‘Third Party.’ A third party is NOT, repeat NOT, the answer; that is the left’s divide and conquer strategy. We have Perot’s recent example of this which gave us Clinton. Retake the GOP and throw out the RINOs, turncoats and infiltrators yet keep the party apparatus. To do otherwise will mean irreversible damage caused by BHO’s socialist/marxist agenda after eight years. Deserting the GOP is easy; it will take hard work and love of country to fix it.

Regards.


433 posted on 11/01/2009 3:46:05 PM PST by Sine_Pari
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To: Covenantor
What's the collective noun for weasels?

As*holes

434 posted on 11/01/2009 3:46:17 PM PST by dearolddad
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To: Clintonfatigued

If Hoffman wins, she may run against him as a Dem in 2010. She already reached out to high school students in one of her self-serving speeches—some of them will turn 18 this year.


435 posted on 11/01/2009 3:47:44 PM PST by firebrand
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To: JrsyJack
What's the collective noun for weasels? Congress

Perfect! LMAO!

436 posted on 11/01/2009 3:50:48 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: dearolddad

The whole thing was a setup by BO, and it may yet work. The best thing to do for next 48 hours is to get Hoffman elected. Then we can settle accounts with those who deserve it.

The only comfort I take from this is that the RATS know that Corzine may in fact lose and they had to desperately salvage something.

The bad side is that if Owens now wins, Pelosi gets her health care monstrosity passed this week, and this is truly dangerous for the Republic.


437 posted on 11/01/2009 3:50:58 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

438 posted on 11/01/2009 3:51:15 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: dearolddad
What's the collective noun for weasels?

As*holes

LOL!

439 posted on 11/01/2009 3:51:47 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: edpc

She’s a huge pro-abort. It comes as no surprise that she would end up endorsing the Democrat. Anybody but the pro-life guy!


440 posted on 11/01/2009 3:51:50 PM PST by Deo volente (This administration is a national emergency!)
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