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Confirmed: SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS 23RD CAMPAIGN
http://www.stealthfusion.com/forum/local-politics/8204-breaking-scozzafava-drops-out-ny-23-race.html ^ | 10/31/2009 | Watertown News

Posted on 10/31/2009 7:51:28 AM PDT by johnnyd0422

"Today, I again seek to act for the good of our community,"

"It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so. I am and have always been a proud Republican. It is my hope that with my actions today, my party will emerge stronger and our district and our nation can take an important step towards restoring the enduring strength and economic prosperity that has defined us for generations."

Scozzafava Statement


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: classylady; doughoffman; dropout; failure; hoffman; nevermind; ny2009; ny23; nygop; ourloss; rinopurge; rinotwitquits; scozzafava; teaparty
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To: PhiKapMom
They are not the traditional 3rd Party but are there for cases like this as they usually endorse the Republican. They formed as they had no say in the GOP heirarchy in NY. It paid off big time now. They need to stay separate and do what they have been doing because it will make the Republican candidates in NY not be the hard core leftist that this woman was.

Many people don't understand that system in NY, especially those who come from states where it differs a lot. They fail to understand that a candidate may be endorsed on more than one line.

241 posted on 10/31/2009 12:10:18 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Windflier

Methinks Scozzabean is looking to the future knowing she can’t win now. If she appears to ‘do the honorable thing’ with bowing out then she may have favor in a future race plus she will not be tagged with the loss in the election.
I bet she is pulling for Owens since she can have another chance in 2010 if Hoffman (God forbid) loses!


242 posted on 10/31/2009 12:10:25 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: Avoiding_Sulla; All

If we don’t wake up to voter fraud we are finished. Look at Minn. and multiply by 50!

Great post!


243 posted on 10/31/2009 12:11:51 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Avoiding_Sulla

Turnout.... huge turnout needed for conservatives of NY-23 to counter the dirty, cheating tricks of the DemRats!


244 posted on 10/31/2009 12:13:24 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: Gondring
Many people don't understand that system in NY, especially those who come from states where it differs a lot. They fail to understand that a candidate may be endorsed on more than one line.

Yes, for example it appears that Dede was on at least the Republican, WFP and Conservative lines in 2004 and 2006.

245 posted on 10/31/2009 12:14:00 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: johnnyd0422
I am and have always been a proud Republican.

...In Name Only!

246 posted on 10/31/2009 12:14:52 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: johnnyd0422
Hoffman still needs all of the help that can be sent his way.
247 posted on 10/31/2009 12:16:15 PM PDT by Z in Washington
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To: FreeReign

That picture represents the actuality of politics in Washington, D.C.


248 posted on 10/31/2009 12:17:54 PM PDT by Z in Washington
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To: FreeReign

I live in California. I have seen the RP leadership in my state betray Conservatism for a long time.

We get a guy past the primary, and if he’s a Conservative, that’s the end of it. The RP leadership vanishes, taking their pocket book with them.

There’s no question that the party believes to it’s core that liberalism is the way to go. I say this because with only a little bit of support, some of the people running for governor in our state would have won.

On a shoe string budget, they came close.

Look at the things the RP Leadership signs on to.

They allow open elections so that Democrats help elect our nominee. If that isn’t a bow to the Democrats and allowing them to set our agenda, I don’t know what is.

This endorsement of Skuzzy is just more of the same.

I am so fed up with this bunch.

I appreciate the reply. I do understand your point, but if this party’s leadership isn’t going to lead, then what good are they? Why is it we have to lead them kicking and screaming back to Conservatism.

We live in an atmosphere (in the RP) where Newt can say that Reaganism is dead. If he can say that and not have his head lopped of by the leadership, then there is no leadership.

How do they expect Conservatism to grow as a party, if they never advocate it’s tenets to the public, or even political players that uphold those tenets?


249 posted on 10/31/2009 12:18:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Unseal the lock box containing every document pertaining to Obama's life, TODAY!)
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To: EternalVigilance
Technically, this means that in NY-23 the Republican Party has now slipped from being the third party in this race to being no party to this race.

Yes, but that would be the same technicality you could say for Lieberman in Connecticut.

Both ran for their party in the primaries, but switched in the general.

-PJ

250 posted on 10/31/2009 12:32:19 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
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To: Lazamataz

[crickets]


251 posted on 10/31/2009 12:38:34 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: STARWISE

And then Newt steps up to lift a jib and tack his way down wind, on a vessel that was already going the race.


252 posted on 10/31/2009 12:50:29 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; Mojave

(crickets)


253 posted on 10/31/2009 12:55:02 PM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Lazamataz
So now you get to favor one candidate -- the liberal democrat -- or the other, a conservative republican.

I can't write in Paul Maroun (the conservative republican) because I don't live in the district. Neither does Hoffman, BTW.

254 posted on 10/31/2009 12:56:49 PM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: Lazamataz

Your lighters?


255 posted on 10/31/2009 12:57:27 PM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: Mojave

You need rest.


256 posted on 10/31/2009 1:20:56 PM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: txroadkill

I think they are starting to hear us... time to turn up the volume !

ROFL!

WOOT great day for liberty


257 posted on 10/31/2009 2:09:57 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: staytrue
a moderate would pull votes from the democrat :)

which is fine with me.

258 posted on 10/31/2009 2:12:25 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: johnnyd0422

Another RINO “Newt-ralized”. Conservatism is on the ascendancy. Let’s hope it is not too late.


259 posted on 10/31/2009 2:17:38 PM PDT by Artem55
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To: MestaMachine

lawl


260 posted on 10/31/2009 2:30:17 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (There was a hole here. It's gone now.)
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