Posted on 09/13/2006 5:20:27 PM PDT by neverdem
Correction Appended
The former Yonkers mayor, John Spencer, defeated Kathleen Troia McFarland last night in a fiercely contested Republican primary for United States Senate, setting the stage for an uphill struggle against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As widely expected, Mrs. Clinton soundly defeated her Democratic opponent, Jonathan Tasini, based on unofficial returns. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Spencer had 60.2 percent of the vote, to Ms. McFarland’s 39.8 percent.
The Republican race, which devolved into personal attacks involving marital infidelity, out-of-wedlock children, mental stability and personal revelations about past parental abuse, inspired little turnout.
Last night, during his victory speech at the Polish Center in Yonkers, Mr. Spencer challenged the senator. “Hillary Clinton, you are in the fight of your life,” he said.
His campaign announced that it would start running television ads suggesting that Mrs. Clinton is more interested in running for president than in being a senator.
And Mr. Spencer, a Vietnam veteran, suggested that he would make security a central issue. “I will support wiretapping,” he told supporters. “I will support anything to defeat terrorism.”
Mrs. Clinton, who held no victory party and did little campaigning in the primary, was never seriously challenged. There was so little suspense that after voting near her home in Chappaqua, she immediately returned to Washington.
She released a statement thanking voters, saying, “I’ve worked hard to deserve your confidence, and I will continue to work hard on behalf of the issues and values we share.”
Mr. Tasini, who led the National Writers Union from 1990 until 2003, had never run for office before and was hoping to capture some of the antiwar sentiment that Ned Lamont capitalized on in his victory over Senator Joseph I. Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic primary.
But with only 16.7 percent of the vote...
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For once, I LOVE their choice of words
setting the stage for an uphill struggle against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Understatement of the day. Hope he's got some bigboy pads cause he's going to need them.
Sounds like the typical ugly GOP primary when the GOP candidate will have little chance in the general election. It's a shame.
John Spencer has his a tough road ahead fighting the Dems Cash Cow but he has my vote come November. Go home Hillary!
http://www.spencerforsenate.com
Good luck, John!
John Spencer cannot beat Hillary Clinton going head to head with her as if this was just another Senate race. What he needs to do is to communicate to the voters of New York that Hillary Clinton belongs to a political party that is dying, and sending her back to Washington is not in the best interests of the New York voters and citizens. Contrary to popular belief, the Democrat Party will take neither the Senate or the House this year. If that happens the 2008 POTUS race will not be worth a plug nickel to any Democrat. Spencer needs to correctly define Ms. Clinton as the dinosaur she in reality is, and she and her political are becoming with each day that passes. That is his only chance.
I know I'm asking a lot on short notice....but it's worth posing he question. Shoot, if we can organize our own internal fundraiser for continued FR, why not a similar effort to defeat and finally ice the witch?
Granted, we'd both vote for Skippy the Wonder Poodle over Hillary, but if he's gonna be just as much a carpetbagger for the rest of the state, what's the point?
I'm not sure that I follow your logic. Care to explain?
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if he wants money - he simply has to do one thing - go negative, and viciously so. run negative ads, he's got nothing to lose anyway.
I haven't seen any Spencer TV ads down here on broadcast TV either. I don't think he had the money to make an expensive TV buy.
Spencer has been running some ads on cable downstate, though - something you'd miss if you have a satellite dish or a cable system that repackages Direct TV (like some independent cable operators in Manhattan).
KT did send out a mailer, likely targeted to Republican women, showing her and Ronald Reagan shortly before election day.
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I wish Mr. Spencer luck, because he's going to need a lot of it, I fear. :(
I've given to the Spencer campaign and will gladly donate again if Freepers start a fund. COUNT ME IN!
Count me in too. John is fighting to keep America safe from another term of the beast.
I hope John starts campaigning a bit in NYC. There are quite a few Republicans in Queens and Staten Island and even the other boroughs who probably don't know a thing about him. Manhattan is a bit of a lost cause but it would be nice to see him outside a subway station shaking hands. New Yorkers go for that BIG TIME!
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