GOP will try to get own candidate off NY ballot

Tri City Herald ^ | September 22,2010 | JIM FITZGERALD

[nycteacher]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Republicans will try to remove their own candidate from the ballot in a suburban New York congressional race because he wrote an article warning against racial mingling, a party official said Wednesday.

Jim Russell, 56, a perennial GOP candidate known for his strong opposition to immigration, wrote in 2001 that parents should teach their children "an acceptance of appropriate ethnic boundaries for socialization and for marriage."

[nycteacher]

Anyone interested in Running in NY18

[MEGoody]

How in the world did this guy get on the ballot in the first place??????

[nycteacher]

Good question which should be directed at the NY GOP County bosses. He’s run twice before.

[Cicero]

Well, at first I was somewhat sympathetic. Nothing wrong with suggesting to children that they should marry someone with whom they are compatible, and that interracial marriage can be risky (although I know of several among my friends that have worked out well).

Then I read the rest of the article and what he said, and I say, throw the bum out. We already have a Nazi eugenist in the White House. We don’t need them in the Republican party, posing as conservatives.

[Iron Munro]

How in the world did this guy get on the ballot in the first place??????

Gee, how was republican leadership suppoded to know his history? - they have only had 9 years to vet him.

[Scythian]

Is there a defeated GOP candidate at the hands of the Tea Party person willing to mount a write-in campaign?

[DoughtyOne]

What I always find interesting, is when people prove what I have been saying for years, is possible after all.

We have “Republicans” that act as if they are the worst sort of Democrats for 80% of their terms in office, only to move far right at re-election time.

Does the leadership say anything? No. Their quiet as church mice. “Oh, there’s nothing we can do about it. The people have spoken.” Well, low and behold, there is something they can do about it isn’t there.

If they can remove this guy from the ballot, it begs the question, why is this same leadership so damned silent when Senators like McCain join forces with the worst of the worst on the Left?

Is it because the leadership thinks that a grand idea?

I’d like to know.

[NYRepublican72]

It’s NY-18, the lower Westchester seat of insidious rat Nita Lowey. It goes through suburban limousine liberal hellholes like Greenburgh and Scarsdale. It’s D+9 and went to Obama 62-38.

I don’t think there’s much vetting going on. This seat is not on most people’s radar when it comes to vulnerability.

It’s not competitive. NY-18 is arguably a fringe seat in a 100 seat Republican tsunami (318th most Republican district) that’s about it.

[presently no screen name]

Russell did not return messages left by The Associated Press on Tuesday or Wednesday. He has said the essay has been misinterpreted.

Russell is challenging longtime Rep. Nita Lowey, a powerful Democrat. Lowey, who is Jewish, defeated Russell in 2008 by 37 percentage points.

I believe his essay has been misinterpreted. This is politics and Lowey has been around forever. We can be quite sure she believes in affirmative action, a proponent of racism is a one way street and every other ill that permeates our society. But we are to accept that - we can't talk about the elephant - PC and all that jazz. How dare if someone expresses another view - and it may not necessarily be his view but a view. Straight from the barry handbook.

What about the R's who are for illegal immigration? Why has the GOP supported them?

[Mr. K]

I am betting he is a democrap plant

[GlockThe Vote]

I live in this district. It is held by Nita Lowey. she is not going anywhere.

[presently no screen name]

If they can remove this guy from the ballot, it begs the question, why is this same leadership so damned silent when Senators like McCain join forces with the worst of the worst on the Left?

Is it because the leadership thinks that a grand idea?

EXACTLY my thought!

[lewislynn]

Where’s Karl Rove when you need him?

[Dr. Sivana]

I actually looked up the document. HERE on Google docs.

One thig should be brought out immediately: the man does not seem to be genuinely religious, attributing religion largely to genetics. Starting out with Thucydides and Herodotus was just fine, but then he devolves into citing Nietszche and others of a materialist bent (especially Darwin). He does cite T.S. Eliot at length, but only the parts that suit his purposes.

While he wants to take a scholarly tone, and is apparently well-read, the piece reads more like a laundry list than a logically cohesive argument.

I would say his mindset belongs more top Christopher Hitchens and Timothy McVeigh and Samuel Francis than anyone. That means ultimately there is no real reason to prefer his desired outcome than anybody else's. As with the aforementioned, their might be individual arguments or tenets that might well be true, but because they spring from a poisoned, dead mind, the source must be dismissed.

[mass55th]

"How in the world did this guy get on the ballot in the first place??????"

This is New York State we're talking about. The officials running the state's Republican Committee are brainless twits.

[chrisam]

Also interesting to note:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Russell

His political positions include...opposition to the war in Iraq, opposition to a blockade of Iran

[cynwoody]

I actually looked up the document. HERE on Google docs.

The article has been disappeared from the site and from the contents page [compare the Google cache] for the issue (Vol 1, No 2, Winter 2001-2002) in which it appeared.

[nycteacher]

NY 18, includes most of Westchester County and a small part of Rockland. Westchester in 2009 elected a GOP County Exec, shocking the incumbent Democrat Andy Spano. Rockland County formerly had a Republican Representative Ben Gilman before NY lost the seat.

Russell was a last minute selection after the original pick Wasserman dropped out of the race in July. Wasserman a former Democrat is a CPA who was campaigning as a fiscal conservative and talked about repealing Obamacare. I met him and I can tell you people were very interested as soon as they found out he was running against Lowey. I love to know why he pulled out.

I would like to think that in this election year almost anything is possible even Republicans winning in NY State. Take a look at the Senate race with Joe DioGuardi and Gillibrand or the Governor’s race with Paladino and Cuomo. Looks like in both cases the Republican is quickly making up ground.