Posted on 07/18/2018 1:29:38 PM PDT by Simon Green
The campaign manager of a Democrat seeking a U.S. House seat in upstate New York quit the campaign Tuesday, after a video showed the candidate saying she wouldn't publicly endorse a ban on certain firearms -- for fear that she’d lose the election.
Mike Szustak, who since April had run the campaign of candidate Tedra Cobb, told the Watertown Daily Times that he’s no longer part of Cobb's bid to unseat Republican incumbent Elise Stefanik in New York's 21st Congressional District.
The departure follows revelations that Cobb won’t publicly state that she favors banning assault rifles. The video was first revealed by the Washington Free Beacon. Fox News also reported on the video.
"When I was at this thing today, it was the first table I was at, a woman said, ‘How do you feel about assault rifles?' And I said they should be banned," Cobb is heard telling a group of teens in the video.
"And I said, you know, people were getting up to go, to go get their lunch because it was a buffet, and I just said to her, 'I want you to know, Cindy, I cannot say that,” she added.
The Democrat went on to explain that she cannot publicly come out in support of a gun ban as that will doom her election chances.
"And she said, ‘Well, I want you to,' and I said, ‘I won't win,'" Cobb said. "I said Moms Demand [Action] says, and Tricia Pleau [member of the gun-control group Moms Demand Action] said, ‘Do not say that you want an assault rifle ban because you will not win.'"
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TEDRA????
Grubering - the practice of deceiving voters for “their own good”.
Apparently, people working for the Democrats have no clue how candidates have traditionally won office. They say what will get them elected, and then do whatever their agenda is when the are in office. That’s just the way it is. Forcing a candidate to commit to an unpopular, election killing statement is stupid. The whole trick to politics is to state things in a way that somebody who believes in X will think you support it while somebody who hates X believes you are against it. For a good example, read anything a Kennedy said...any Kennedy at any time.
That’s right, Democrats...
Never tell ‘em who you really are...
Lie as necessary, win the election, THEN do whatever the hell you want.
You know much better than the “Ordinary People” how they should live — down to the smallest detail.
You, Democrats, are blessed with True Vision and Intelligence far beyond the “Little People.”
Steady as she goes... Doin’ fine...
Not just democrat candidates, too. "Repeal Obamacare", "Strengthen the border", "cut spending" ... they did the opposite in every case.
Generally has the opposing effect on me.
Spout nonsense, gibberish, or start your reply with something like “Well, that is a good question...” and the rest is automatically discarded as lie or irrelevant.
NY 21 - includes Fort Drum, and the Adirondacks. So district has military, a lot of people who hunt, farmers, and who have bears in their backyards.
No wonder this @ss has to lie to the people.
She’ll have more flexibility after the election.
Exposure is what the LEFT Marxists fear the most!!
We Deplorables must be digging and exposing 24/7.
TEDRA? Wonder how big her Shwanz is?
What is the big deal?
The entire LEFT wants a gun ban. The masked socialists know to keep their mouths shut and not leave a paper trail.
He was made to quit not because they disagree but because he left a trail of evidence.
Even moderate, or so I have been told, Feinstein would go for it if she had the votes but fortunately she doesn’t.
She is not against a gun ban, she just knows it wouldn’t pass. So she is just like the rest of the LEFT.
Still funding the LEFT? We all should be reviewing our discretionary spending and cut them off completely. Starting with cable tv.
Refuse to pay for the rope they want to hang you with.
Exactly. If she’s too stupid not to realize this, then she deserves to lose.
And fr that campaign manager? Quit the drama. You “quit” because you got caught and stop lying to us you quit due to principles. Dummycrats have no principles.
Lying for the cause, the common trait of Democrats and Muslims.
Wikileaks infuriated the Dems because it showed how stupid they thought WE are...
This is source of the shock & outrage (tm) from the left, when a R candidate follows through on their campaign promises when elected.
My bear always comes to the front porch begging for food after he ravages the berrry patches and the trash bins at the hospital. About 20 miles away the bears casually break into houses all the time.
So the candidate lied and the campaign manager gets fired?
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