re Elise Stefanik win in NY-21
She is not TeaParty, she is GOP-E. We will likely take that seat back in Nov (if Matt drops out), but this is not a win for the TP.
She wasn’t living in district, not paying taxes in district, moved to her parents’ camp from DC to run. Was put in place by Ryan & NRCC with a lot of $$ to push out an emerging TP candidate.
Rove spent $250K + to squash Doheny. Lot of money spent to make that seat GOP-E
IMO
Kate
well, NY Right to Life strongly endorsed Elise over Doheny, who had little interest in life issues. So, he had a tough sell there.
DailyKos agrees she is a phony candidate. But we hope the Doheny folks come aboard. If the Doheny folks wanted somebody thoroughly conservative grass-roots, they should have worked hard for Doug Hoffman in 2009, instead of sitting it out.