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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: Irish Eyes
For years it's been the RINO'S telling conervatives to vote for anyone with an "R" after their name. It's changed. From now on if Republicans want to win...RINO'S better vote for someone with a "C" after their name.

The Hillmans, The Rockefellers, The McCains, ANYONE who is even CLOSE to being a RINO must understand... the era of RINO'S is OVER!

A vote for a RINO is a vote for rat. No more reaching across the aisle!

prisoner6

281 posted on 10/31/2009 3:12:06 PM PDT by prisoner6 (ACORN is nuts!)
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To: lonestar

the RIGHT thing would have been to tell your followers to vote for Hoffman......she stopped short of that.


282 posted on 10/31/2009 3:12:49 PM PDT by tioga
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To: prisoner6

283 posted on 10/31/2009 3:15:01 PM PDT by tioga
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To: GeronL; All

Folks, Owens has won it.

Most of her supporters will NOT go to Hoffman. PERIOD.


284 posted on 10/31/2009 3:16:24 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: GraceG

Well Newt has lost all credibility as far as I am concerned! I firmly believe he has aspirations of being President and wants to to stay in the game no matter what he has to do!


285 posted on 10/31/2009 3:17:19 PM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: tioga
LOL!

prisoner6

286 posted on 10/31/2009 3:18:38 PM PDT by prisoner6 (ACORN is nuts!)
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To: tioga

Some things are understood, unsaid.


287 posted on 10/31/2009 3:19:34 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
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To: Irish Eyes

Apparently, she wouldn’t want to meet YOU in a dark alley, would she?


288 posted on 10/31/2009 3:22:46 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Yes, it IS the end of the world.)
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To: tioga

Just remember this: Celebrate thuggery!!


289 posted on 10/31/2009 3:24:02 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Yes, it IS the end of the world.)
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To: rwfromkansas

Exactly. Should we send a thank you note to Richard Viguerie, et al?


290 posted on 10/31/2009 3:25:04 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Yes, it IS the end of the world.)
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To: lonestar

I doubt it........Thursday she had her “people” flashing an email about claiming Hoffman pledged to support her.....and today she just quits.......days before she loses the election anyway. She did NOT tell her supporters to switch to Hoffman and it cannot reasonably be assumed she meant that. She would just rather give her concession now than on election night. She hasn’t a snowballs chance in hell of winning and she knows it. She is already licking her wounds.


291 posted on 10/31/2009 3:26:53 PM PDT by tioga
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To: boxlunch; hoosiermama
We need be confident, be organized, and be ready for 2010!

PASS THE WORD CONSERVATIVES Tea partiers, 9/12 marchers, pro-lifers, defense of marriage; 2nd amendment, anti ObamaCare;anti-amnesty;anti cap/trade.

These are the terms under which we permit solid conservatives to earn our support:

(1) Your conservative group holds an official position within the campaign;

(2) Your group's issue is affirmed in the candidate's platform;

(3) Your group is in attendance at all campaign strategy meetings;

(4) Your group holds a paid job in the campaign;

(5) Your group holds a position in the winning candidate's elective office.

(6) The candidate must renounce RINOS and pukeneos before he gets conservative endorsement.

292 posted on 10/31/2009 3:27:01 PM PDT by Liz (ALL FOX---ALL THE TIME---24/7)
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To: tioga

As liberal as she is, I think it’s better that she keeps her mouth shut. That’s my opinion...and I sticking with it. LOL!


293 posted on 10/31/2009 3:29:25 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
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To: La Enchiladita; All

I have seen this before, and frankly it is textbook.

When the moderate Republican drops out and does not emphatically endorse the conservative candidate, her supporters largely default to the Dem candidate.

That’s going to happen. Considering how tight a race it is, that is a defining point and will almost assuredly win the race for Hoffman.


294 posted on 10/31/2009 3:31:18 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: lonestar

I think the Independents will win or lose this one. I hope they start falling in line with Hoffman. Any defectors from the left will certainly switch back to Owens. The party regulars - both officials and voters will turn to Hoffman. Just depends. I am rooting for Hoffman to pull this one out.


295 posted on 10/31/2009 3:32:41 PM PDT by tioga
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To: lonestar

No, she dropped out to give Owens a win.

There is no way hoffman will win when she didn’t tell her supporters to vote for him but left it open.


296 posted on 10/31/2009 3:33:48 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: rwfromkansas

Dede was NOT a moderate.


297 posted on 10/31/2009 3:34:33 PM PDT by tioga
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To: rwfromkansas

Hopefully, her backers will be furious with her and break for Hoffman. She dumped them, not the other way around.


298 posted on 10/31/2009 3:35:33 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Avoiding_Sulla

Beware violations of the Voting Rights Act, however, even if only in the leftist imagination. They’d love to pin that one on conservatives.


299 posted on 10/31/2009 3:38:23 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)

Just wondering...maybe if we were to put in a call to Germany...Could we get them to take ours?

300 posted on 10/31/2009 3:39:59 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, nothing more than bald haired hippies.)
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