Posted on 04/25/2009 10:44:12 AM PDT by liberty75
Republican Jim Tedisco conceded the special election to fill Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s vacated House seat to Scott Murphy yesterday, thereby giving Democrats their second Congressional victory post-November, but most importantly, a reason to cast Republicans – namely, Republican National Chairman Michael Steele – in a less than competent light.
After rebounding from a series of gaffes and provocative interviews, Steele saw NY-20 as a means to change the narrative. He elected to up the ante and raise the profile of the race by investing large sums of money in the race, transferring $280,000 to the New York Republican State Committee, which is to say nothing of the $1,000,000 transferred to the financially-strained Hill committees.
The RNC transfers aside, Steele invested his own personal capital and celebrity in the hopes of assuaging committee members’ fears they elected the wrong guy for the job. Steele bet it all – his reputation and unclear future as party chief – on Tedisco, and now all he has are the shoes on his feet and the shirt on his back.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
And they wouldn’t lift a finger in IL-5 to help Rosanna Pulido, FR’s own chicagolady.
We need to cut off donations and support to the RNC until the leadership figures out whose side they’re on.
The RNC had better launch an immediate take-no-prisoners crusade to STOP this insane absentee ballot fraud that has infected nearly all 50 states!!!
Absentee ballots are impossible to verify. Absentee ballots are prone to abuse as ACORN and lib family members will simply fill out VOTES .. aka absentee ballots for ALL family members, regardless of the wishes or knowledge of said family members.
Election boards don’t have the time, or statutes or manpower to check for validity of absentee ballots, especially the Democrat controlled election boards in big Democrat cities... which have no interest what so ever in rooting out bogus absentee ballots.
If Michael Steele is too timid or too nicey nicey to demand absentee ballot reform IMMEDIATELY, then Michael Steele has to go!!!
Why did Tedisco lose? has district changed? Obama popularity?
Voter fraud?
We have an opposition that is corrupt beyond description, and desiring endless power. Our own side either can't or won't stop them.
(letter I just emailed and snail mailed to RNC Chair Michael Steel)
Dear Michael Steele:
I like you. You are bright, personable, and often charming.
That said, if you don’t launch a take-no-prisoners crusade IMMEDIATELY to STOP this insane absentee ballot fraud that has infected nearly all 50 states, then I and all other Republican committee members in my influence will push for your ouster.!!!
Absentee ballots are often impossible to verify.
Absentee ballots are prone to abuse as ACORN and lib-Democrat union family members simply fill out multiple VOTES .. aka absentee ballots ... for ALL family members, regardless of that absentee voter’s health or location or knowledge of their name even being used.
Election boards don’t have the time, or backing or manpower to check for validity of absentee ballots.
Furthermore, the Democrat controlled election boards in big Democrat cities don’t even WANT to eliminate the absentee ballot corruption because they know it benefits them to leave the fraud in place.
Mr. Steele. You ran as someone who vowed to reform Republican politics.
If you are too timid or too nicey nicey to demand absentee ballot reform IMMEDIATELY, then you Michael Steele have got to go!!!
Sincerely, (me from Bucks County, Pennsylvania — GOP commiteeman)
According to those who know, the district is ordinarily tipped way toward the Democrats, so Tedisco did pretty well, almost winning.
Where people disagree is WHY he did so well. One theory is that he is pretty good. Others say he is pretty lousy, but that the current Democrat leadership in NY, especially the Accidental Governor, disgusted the voters, who therefore went Republican. I suspect that’s the explanation, but I don’t know for sure.
>> We need to cut off donations and support to the RNC
Your advice comes too late for me. I have already cut them off.
After I see outstanding conservative rhetoric followed by unmistakably conservative actions, I’ll consider supporting them. But not until those things happen.
Under Steele, I’ve seen neither. Only “bipartisanship” and bumbling incompetence.
>> According to those who know, the district is ordinarily tipped way toward the Democrats
Hmmm... that’s not what I read in posts here on FR, repeatedly, prior to the election.
I read that the district was ordinarily safe Republican.
Don’t allow the Democrat Party to define Mike Steele. They were unmerciful in the Maryland contest for the US senate seat. They hate him and will do anything to follow the Alinsky rules. Single him out and ridicule him. Not many people can name the last guy that headed up the RNC but they know Mike. I back Mike 100%.
I think conservative Republicans have become “Liberal” in their outlook of where responsibility lays, particularly in elections for ANY legislators - looking for someone outside the district, and outside the state, to call the shots and round up the resources; when the successful efforts, in the end, in most instances, were built on “get out the vote” efforts.
As do I.
I just feel that Steele must start a take-no-prisoners campaign to stop the rampant absentee ballot fraud which has caused Democrats to steal the last five elections - COUNT 'EM - FIVE 50-50 elections which were decided with absentee ballots.
Unless Steele and the RNC files lawsuit after lawsuit to open up these fraudulent election boards, the GOP will slide further into minority status.
I will continue to support Steele IF he actually gets tough.
If not, what's the point of having him instead of the wimpy "old" RNC chairman?
>> you understand this was for Gillibrand’s seat right?
Yes, but my understanding was that the seat was (R) prior to Gillibrand, and that Gillibrand only won because she ran as a “conservative” Dem.
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