Posted on 06/24/2014 2:41:41 PM PDT by cotton1706
Should be another intersting night! Hopefully we'll build some more momentum!
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.
didn’t notice the IP with Hayworth.
primaries are open to candidates who are not members. Guess some IP guy could run in a DEM primary down in the cities.
Not true in CT.
So how can candidates receive cross-endorsements in CT? Are they allowed only when there isn’t a primary?
in CT, the party endorses at convention, only party members can make a challenge in a primary.
Which is why ... if Joe Lieberman ran for re-election seeking the GOP nod ... he would have had to win the convention. A loss at the convention and he cannot primary and would have had to go 3rd party again.
Re: NY1
Some have voiced concerned over Zeldin because Demos says he’s voted to fund Obamacare, I believe this a delibrite distortion. Conservative Party chairman Mike Long denouced Demos’ attack ads.
Zeldin similarly unfairly attacked Demos, calling him a “Pelosi Republican” because Demos’ father in law donated to Demos’ campaign and also to Pelosi. It was a very nasty race.
Good news on Hayworth getting the IP line.
So it looks like
NY-21 is maybe third on our takeover list after the seats in NC and UT?
NY-1 we have a good chance
NY-18 we have a good chance (according to Wikipedia Rothenberg surprisingly has it as safe D, most people say lean D)
NY-4 we have a chance. Redistricting was not kind to the Long Island seats, I believe Israel’s is the only one that got more Republican.
Odds are probably better than even that Grimm will lose so I hope to offset that other gains in state. If Grimm does lose I hope State Senator Andrew Lanza runs in 2016.
Bad new in NY unrelated to the election, the breakaway democrats that are in a coalition with Senate Republicans are very fearful of primary challengers, so they say they are ending the coalition. The Senate is supposedly in recess for the rest of the year.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-york-state-senate-coalition-ends-1403748346
We need Republicans to gain outright control in this upcoming election (hopefully keeping Simcha Felder in the fold), WSJ say that is “unlikely”.
In New York, District 24 was a disappointment. RINO Richard Hanna narrowly won the primary in a Republican-leaning district. There is no DemocRAT running. Claudia Tenney almost won the Republican nomination. She is the nominee of the Conservative Party, but will she actively campaign in the fall? For the time being, I don’t expect that she will.
I forgot Tenney’s on the ballot anyway as the CP nominee, she should be encouraged to give it a go and keep running. No rat so vote splitting is not a concern.
“I forgot Tenney’s on the ballot anyway as the CP nominee, she should be encouraged to give it a go and keep running. No rat so vote splitting is not a concern.”
Interesting.
I heard her on Fred Dicker’s radio show Wed., and they never mentioned this, but she is very enthusiastic about running again in two years.
She did great considering she only had around $150,000, and over $2 million was spent against her with LIES.
If Brookyln Democrat Recchia beats Grimm (thanks to the Democrats’ political witch hunt of the only GOP congressman from NYC), I agree that state Senator Andrew Lanza would be our best bet to win the NY-11 back in 2016. But will Lanza give up his safe state senate seat to run for Congress? His predecessor in the state senate, John Marchi, held that state senate seat for 50 years (he was elected to 25 two-year terms), and only ran for higher office in odd-numbered years (he ran for NYC mayor a couple of times) so as not to have to give up his senate seat.
As you probably know, I have long advocated running a Stated Island Italian-American in that CD, and I’m sure that they’re some good ones who could beat Recchia, but half-Greek, half-Cuban Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (who represents parts of Staten Island and Brooklyn in the state house) sure seems to be a great potential candidate for 2016:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381928/latina-who-killed-dream-act-christine-sisto
Nicole Malliotakis would make a teriffic candidate. I just wish that Grimm had dropped out of the race. So many long-time Republicans suffer from Elephantisus of the Ego when it comes to their viability as candidates.
The list from that “hottest female democrats” thread (which was sadly pulled, you may not have seen it) mentioned a Greek-American rat Assemblywoman in NY, I didn’t know we had a Republican one as well.
And she’s Cuban too, and against the dream act!
Sounds like a dream candidate.
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