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Will New York's Rep. Hanna Crash in Primary Like Eric Cantor?
NewsMax ^ | June 19, 2014 | John Gizzi

Posted on 06/20/2014 4:18:13 AM PDT by statestreet

With barely five days to go before New York's June 24 primary, speculation is mounting as to whether Rep. Richard Hanna is going to the next Republican U.S. House member after Virginia's Eric Cantor to lose renomination.

While House Majority Leader Cantor's loss was fueled largely by his support on immigration reform and extending the debt ceiling — both issues that angered tea party Republicans — two-termer Hanna has many more positions hostile to conservatives.

More significantly, Cantor was defeated by an obscure college educator, David Brat, while Hanna, 63, faces a well-known conservative figure in State Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cantor; congress; hanna; tenney

1 posted on 06/20/2014 4:18:13 AM PDT by statestreet
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To: statestreet

One less vote for Bonehead and McCarthy could be in the making.
Oust that NY GOP Rino.


2 posted on 06/20/2014 4:35:02 AM PDT by tennmountainman (Just Say No To Cochran And Boss Hogg.)
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To: statestreet

Hanna claims to be conservative.


3 posted on 06/20/2014 4:37:09 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: statestreet

And if he doesn’t get his third term, he doesn’t get his pension.


4 posted on 06/20/2014 4:48:35 AM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: statestreet

Wow! Gone National! Claudia is good people.

Guess I’m not the only one a little disappointed in him.


5 posted on 06/20/2014 5:07:51 AM PDT by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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To: statestreet

A woman has no business being conservative, she is a traitor to her sex.


6 posted on 06/20/2014 6:19:40 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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