He isn’t running to be the next Senator for the state of New York. He is running to be the Representative for the 23rd district. There is a difference.
Sarah-bot wrote:
Newt has attacked Hoffman as being an outsider, and I don’t think it is productive for Hoffman to fight that too strongly. Hoffman should be saying that he is a fellow New Yorker and that what is good for New York State is good for the district.
BTW, Newt is an idiot on this. Hoffman has a business with five locations within the district. His immediate family owns and operates another dozen or more businesses, all located within the 23rd district. His family has several homes within the district. He does live just outside the district, but has said he will move to a home in the district when he is elected. The local news stories seem to discount any talk of him being a “carpetbagger.”
But he has been asked questions about issues important to the people in his district. What he thinks of winter navigation on the St. Lawrence Seaway, what his position is on the “Rooftop highway,” Interstate 98. He needs to have answers on those issues. To his credit, he has not dodged the questions (much). I hope he makes the only debate being held within the district on this coming Wednesday.
But Sara Palin can’t help him with local issues. She doesn’t know this district, hasn’t lived in this district, and actually is an outsider.
I like Sara Palin. I voted for her for VP last year. But if she came to my district and tried to campaign for a Congressional candidate, I doubt it would influence me much. I doubt she knows the issues facing Hernando County, Florida either. But I do expect a candidate to represent me to understand the issues down here in my district.
I am sure that Doug Hoffman appreciates your donation. It enables him to do things he couldn’t have done without those funds. I also have donated. But I didn’t do it because I think I know how to run his campaign. I did research the district some, and the positions of the man who won with 65% of the vote last year. If this district seemed like it was completely in line with Scozzafava’s positions, I would have stayed out of it. The truth is, Hoffman is closer to what McHugh was than either of the other two candidates. I am standing up to the idiots who selected the wrong candidate for the Republicans, and the idiots in Washington who went along with that wrong choice.
Sarah-bot wrote:
I donated to the man, based on the fact that Sarah endorsed him. He stands for the right things but I think he could use a little help firing people up. Sarah and McCain may have lost in the district,
I was already going to ask about the phone banks. I can do that from here in FL.
AmericanInTokyo wrote:
That would be: a) those with Skype so they don't run their phone bills up, start calling voters in the NY district to get them to the polls or remind them; b) those that can write, start hitting local letters to the editor and blogs; c) those that can cyber-canvass senior citizen homes or shut-ins throughout the 23rd, find out who will vote for Doug, get a name and address, and forward to the campaign so on election day they can get vans and cars out to run those folks to the polls and back home; d) Freep polls, e) call and write RNC in D.C. to keep putting pressure on them to back off; f) call and write major national GOP officials in their own districts who can be called upon to ask Ms. Scuzzafava to drop out of the race, and g) many more I have not thought about. Let's take this baby NATIONALLY!!
For letters to the editor and blog entries, Hoffman has a “Volunteer Media Kit” on his website at http://www.doughoffmanforcongress.com/files/Volunteer%20Media%20Kit.pdf.
The RNC isn’t the problem in this race, it is the National Republican Congressional Committee. They are the ones spending the big bucks supporting Scozzafava, and they aren’t backing down for a few phone calls. Although I guess it might not hurt to melt their phone lines. Perhaps we can try this tomorrow. I'll get numbers and get back on this. We should be asking for them to dump Dede, and perhaps also ask them to start supporting David Harmer in CA-10.
| From the desk of cc2k: |
Candidates I support: Doug Hoffman for Congress, NY 23rd (PayPal), David Harmer for Congress, CA 10th (website for info). Please, spread the word about these important special elections on November 3, 209: New York’s 23rd congressional district and California’s 10th congressional district. |
Freepers MUST take action, either in donations or in volunteering.
To do otherwise is like some of these people we see hang around at campaign offices, just talking and drinking coffee, disturbing the other volunteers and not getting anything done. That generates no votes.
Let us all get a piece of work to do over the next week and do it from our homes if need be, by remote access. Thanks again for your proactive suggestions. I will try some of them. For starters, just because I would relish it to tell off some RINOs and I am in a bad mood anyways this week, I am going to tear the NRCC a new one on some e-mails over this Scuzzyflavor business. We can be anywhere from Boise Idaho to Chad or Vanuatu to be able to do that nowadays.
Sarah Palin has made the point better than I have been able to, so I will just quote her “The votes of every member of Congress affect every American, so it’s important for all of us to pay attention to this important Congressional campaign in upstate New York.” (Palin)
I am from Alaska so her point about every member of Congress affecting every American resonates with me. In Alaska we have one Representative in Congress, so every Alaskan is represented by that Representative. It is hard to imagine that economic factors in northern New York State could be so diverse that a man living in a district would be unqualified to represent adjacent district. If the race was for the State house then I would agree that Hoffman’s residency would be a legitimate issue, but he is running for Congress.
If electing a Representative to the house comes down to ensuring that pork is delivered to an individual district within a state, then I don’t know what to say. It just seems to me that a Federal level legislator should be focused on State and Federal level issues, not district level issues. Anyway, we are both on the same side of this issue, pretty much, so I am not going to beat a dead horse. From now on I am going to sit back and see what happens.