Posted on 06/23/2020 12:53:06 AM PDT by RandFan
It’s super easy, barely an inconvenience.
https://www.thegreenpapers.com/G20/NY
https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2020&id=NY19
I guess that explains why it was close but the ‘district gop’ should be ashamed of itself for backing some piker who couldn’t possibly compete in November rather than a sexy gun chick who at least managed to snag a quarter million. The BLM rat has 2.7 mil in the bank. These democrat scum in the house have way too much money, someone needs to tell the Maoists that it’s all corporate.
To flip we need 1 seat from NY. For a likely takeover, we probably need two. We don’t need three.
Wow.
Too many Republicans are broke.
Ola raised 64k. Loaned herself 200k
Farley in NY 18 appears to be where they’re prioritizing
“It is my grammatical understanding that the races should be capitalized.”
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While “Caucasian” and “Negro” should be capitalized, “black” and “white” should not be, even when signifying races.
Shame about Rubén Díaz, Sr. falling way short even with divided opposition. It would have been awesome to see the most heavily RAT CD in the nation represented by a pro-life, pro-marriage, black Puerto Rican Evangelical pastor.
If by chance, Sen. Díaz had won the nomination, the Dems would surely have prevented him from getting any committee assignments once elected (presuming they wouldn’t have attempted to run a write-in Stalinist nominee to keep him from being elected in November). I believe I’m correct in presuming there won’t be a single pro-life Dem come January (presuming Peterson’s defeat in MN) ?
If Diaz had won I bet they would have ran someone else as the Working Families nominee, they prepared by having a “placeholder” WF nominee.
I forgot about the 18th, less GOP than the 19th in POTUS voting but yeah.
The 11th (Staten Island) and 22nd (Tenney rematch) are the top targets.
Currently, the only two pro-life Dems in the House are Peterson of MN and Lipinski of IL, with a few other Democrats who cast pro-life votes from time to time (Cuellar of TX being the most helpful, but Langevin of RI, Kaptur of OH and McAdams of UT also vote pro-life once in a while). If Peterson loses (as I expect him to do), there indeed will be no truly pro-life Democrats in the House, something that would have been inconceivable even 10 years ago.
But there are still oodles of pro-abortion Republicans. Gotta love the irony that the RATS say WE'RE the party controlled by "extremists" who don't tolerate any other points of view...
I think that's why Diaz was a powerful entrenched STATE legislator, but was a non-starter at the federal level. He only got 14% in the RAT primary for Congress and came in a distant third, there was no way RATS were going to let an outspoken pro-life, pro-traditional marriage minister be the face of their party in Congress.
He seems to the NY equivalent of what "Rev. James Meeks" is here in Illinois. Meeks was a black Democrat and pastor of some Baptist megachurch who loved to beat his chest in the Illinois State Senate about how how pro-life and pro-traditional marriage he was. Of course he looked the other way when his BFF Obama lit up the White House in rainbow colors to gloat about legalizing homo "marriage" nationwide.
As for Diaz, his son Rubén Díaz, Jr. was recently elected Bronx president, so he'd be a credible candidate for Mayor of NYC in the future. I dunno if he shares daddy's views on social issues, or if he pretends to do so, like that scumbag "Bob Casey Jr" pulled in Penn.
IIRC, Díaz Jr. publicly expressed his disagreement with his father’s views on abortion and “gay rights” about ten years ago, when he ran for borough president or something like that.
Actually, there are very few pro-abortion Republicans left in the House; even the ones who used to claim to be “pro-choice” have been voting the right way for years. Again, no one would have predicted that even ten years ago.
I know all the pro-abortion RINOs have been wiped out here in Illinois, but that's more due to the RATS gerrymandering all of them out of existence and now having a total monopoly over the state aside from a few isolated downstate regions.
In any case, it certainly wasn't due to them being wiped out by "right wing purists" in GOP primaries. Mark Kirk used to go around voting with Planned Parenthood 100% of the time and claiming his support for partial birth abortion was somehow "thoughtful and socially moderate". If he were starting a congressional career in 2020 instead of 2000, I could see him still pulling that crap, and probably winning anyway if it were under the old district lines from 20 years ago. There's no way hardcore pro-aborts like him would start voting mildly pro-life because that's the national mood of the party.
Yes, Ferguson was a pro-life congressman. And so were Jim Sexton and Frank LoBiondo, who each served for over a decade (in the latter’s case, for over two decades) alongside Smith starting in the early-to-mid 1990s. South Jersey Republicans have tended to be pro-life, and so have nany of those from Central Jersey. What made Garrett an aberration was that he was elected to Congress as a pro-life Republican from North Jersey.
I’ve been too busy to even turn on my computer for awhile, but thanks for the interesting info.!
I just checked my email, and below in quotes is what I received from Sen. Jim Tedisco. Gov. Cuomo expanded abortion in NY State, and was responsible for killing seniors in nursing homes. He’s not as smart as he thinks, is he. (I don’t think I’m hijacking this thread since the primary is over. :) )
“Today, I am announcing new legislation that I?m introducing to establish an independent, bi-partisan state commission to fully investigate the deaths of 6,200 New Yorkers who died from COVID-19 in state-regulated nursing homes.
I?m also urging the New York State Senate and Assembly to quickly hold joint legislative oversight hearings on the COVID-19 related deaths in our state?s nursing homes as well as the disproportionate health effects of the pandemic on minority communities.
A March 25th order by the Cuomo Administration barred testing of the coronavirus for those being placed or returned to nursing homes.
According to ProPublica, ?If a hospital determined a patient who needed nursing home care was medically stable, the home had to accept them, even if they had been treated for COVID-19. Moreover, the nursing home could not test any such prospective residents ? those treated for COVID-19 or those hospitalized for other reasons ? to see if they were newly infected or perhaps still contagious despite their treatment. It was all laid out in a formal order, effective March 25. New York was the only state in the nation that barred testing of those being placed or returning to nursing homes.?
I first called for legislative hearings and an independent investigation into the Administration?s handling of COVID-positive patients being placed into nursing homes in early May. On May 28th, my Senate Republican colleagues and I put an amendment on the Senate Floor to direct $100 million from federal CARES Act funds to nursing homes, assisted living and adult care facilities to help purchase testing supplies, PPEs, as well as train and hire additional staff.
My new legislation would create a state commission to investigate what led to the March 25th executive order and look at the regulations and the oversight safety processes impacting New York State?s nursing homes leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The bi-partisan Commission would consist of five members: one each appointed by the Senate Majority Leader, Senate Minority Leader, Assembly Speaker and Assembly Minority Leader, and chaired by an appointee of the New York State Attorney General. The Commission would be funded through the existing state budget for investigators and have subpoena power. A report to the Legislature of findings and recommendations for the future would be issued by November 30th.
I?m calling on every elected official and candidate running for office to speak out and support a fair and independent investigation into the thousands of lives lost because of the placement of COVID-19 patients in nursing homes.
My legislation takes the politics out of getting to the bottom of this terrible tragedy because this investigation would be overseen by bi-partisan appointees from both houses of the legislature.
We owe it to the families of those who lost their lives and the future safety of these facilities to get answers and help prepare for a second wave of the virus or a future pandemic.”
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