Prove that. Scuzzy was a moderate and a closer match with the RINO who Owens replaced. She voted against the Rockefeller Drug Law Reform which reduced sentences for drug crimes. She voted against the comprehensive gun package, which earned her an endorsement from the NRA. She voted against the Farmworkers Bill of Rights which protects farmworkers(illegals). She voted against a bill that gave more pay to cops in NY City that speak a foreign language on the job. She voted against regulating “no-knock” warrants and monitoring all search warrants. She vote against the 2010 Campaign Finance Reform Act, which would provide “for optional partial public financing of certain election campaigns in this state.” She voted against a bill that required restaurants to post the caloric information, and another bill banning trans fats in restaurants. She voted against several liberal housing and rent control bills.
A lot of ignorant conservatives who get all there news from FR have said the rat was more conservative than Scuzzy. That is a lie.
If there had been a primary election to pick the candidate, Scuzzyflava' would have never been a candidate.
More ignorance. Conservatives sent a message to 0 in Nov. The message is "The anti-obama constituency is so powerless they are fighting for second place. This is a good day to be a rat." The rats are willing to bend, overlook, and break any law to win. They will lie to win. They will pretend to be centrists. We can't do that for fear the conservatives will desert the party. Conservatives think the best way win is to bludgeon the inhabitants of Reagan's Big Tent.
The GOP promoted a moderate candidate in New York in a RINO seat. That is a winning stratagy. Hoffman got every conservative vote, and he lost. Conservatives should consider a strategy that expends less energy going after RINOs in favor of going after democrats ( the guys in power ), but they wont. Conservatives will blame the GOP leadership for an unelectable conservative failing to win in a liberal state.
Hoffman is lousy speaker. He's a flash in the pan that was in the right place at the right time to capture the hearts and wallets of disaffected conservatives today. We have a worse chance of getting that seat back in 2010 then we did last Nov. That is a fact proved by history. If Hoffman runs again from outside of the 23rd district(he doesn't live in the district he ran in), and somehow wins the primary(which I doubt he can do)...I bet you $100 he loses. This time he won't be able to count on RINO’s (a majority of GOP voters in that district, as proved by previous elections) holding their nose and voting for him as a message to 0, they are just as like to be angry at Hoffman for electing Owens in the first place.
The GOP now has 2 out of 31 congressional seats in NY.