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Dede Scozzafava

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    January 13, 2010

    Martha Coakley-Scott Brown Race May Turn on Shoving Incident

    Here's video that shows Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack being muscled by a Democratic staffer as he tries to ask questions of Senatorial candidate Martha Coakley, who faces a special election next week in Massachusetts. The staffer, Michael Meehan, admits he was "a little too aggressive" w ... More >>

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    December 6, 2009

    Monty Burns wins mayoral write-in vote

    ​It turns out there's a constituency for selling Staten Island after all. If you spot him the votes for C Montgomery Burns, Charles Montgomery Bunrs and CM Burns, fictional billionaire Charles Montgomery Burns ran away with the write-in vote in last month's mayoral election with 27 votes (pdf) ... More >>

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    November 10, 2009

    Scozzafava Tells WashPost She Cried, Was Called "Lesbian" Before Rolling to Dems

    ​Last week's NY-23 race, hilarious while in progress, gets a pretty funny sidebar in the Washington Post's follow-up with Dede Scozzafava, who was hounded out of the race by national conservatives and whose endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens probably won him the election. The Post says durin ... More >>

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    November 4, 2009

    Tea Party Over? Hoffman Concedes in NY-23, Democrat Owens Takes Seat Held by GOP Since '93 (Update: Rightbloggers React!)

    Last week conservatives were telling us that the revolution was beginning in New York's 23rd Congressional District, where Conservative Party insurgent Doug Hoffman had knocked not-rightwing-enough Republican Dede Scozzafava off the ballot and was going to purify the GOP with a big victory. This m ... More >>

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    November 3, 2009

    Hoffman-Owens Race in Full Swing, Police Called

    While we slog through our local races here in sleepy Gotham, the NY-23 Congressional election remains hilarious. Last weekend Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava "suspended" her campaign, in which she had come under merciless assault by supporters of Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman and was ... More >>

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    November 2, 2009

    Rightbloggers Get a Scalp, and Perhaps a Party, in NY-23

    On the weekend before a nationally-covered upstate New York Congressional election, the Republican candidate endorsed the Democratic candidate. This is a rarity in American politics, if not a first. Rightbloggers played a key role in this historical achievement. Let's step back several weeks and ... More >>

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    November 1, 2009

    Local paper: Scozzafava supports Democrat

    ​In the wake of yesterday's suprise announcement that Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava was dropping out of the race for the open congressional seat in NY-23, a number of powerful state unions, Scozzafava's husband, and possibly Scozzafava herself have switched their suppport to Democrat Bi ... More >>

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    November 1, 2009

    NY-23: Republican Scozzafava officially endorses Democrat Owens

    ​It's official. In a statement released to the Watertown Daily Times, Dede Scozzafava urging her supporters to support her former Democratic opponent over de facto Republican candidate Doug Hoffman, who she declined to mention. A source told the Times that Scozzafava and her husband, who swi ... More >>

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    October 31, 2009

    Scozzafava suspends NY-23 campaign

    ​Republican Dede Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for the NY-23 House seat.

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    October 29, 2009

    Poll: Owens and Hoffman in Dead Heat; Conservative Ducks Debate, Questions

    A recent Club for Growth poll showed Doug Hoffman, the Conservative candidate in NY-23 who has become a national rightwing cause celebre, leading the race by 4.3 points. As Club for Growth is one of Hoffman's strongest supporters, the poll's credibility was questioned. But today a Research 2000 poll ... More >>

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    October 26, 2009

    Club for Growth Says Hoffman Leads in NY-23

    Last week a Research 2000 poll showed Democrat Bill Owens leading in that contentious NY-23 Congressional race, holding 35 points with Republican Dede Scozzafava at 30 and insurgent Conservative Party candidate Bill Hoffman, backed by Sarah Palin and other prominent rightwingers, at 23 percent. Tod ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Palin, GOP Bigs Lavish Praise on Hoffman; Dems Lavish Money on Owens, Who Increases Lead

    More Republicans from around the country are working to defeat Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava, running for Congress in New York's 23rd District. Sarah Palin has endorsed the Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman (pictured), claiming, as have other rightwingers in the Party, that this is " ... More >>

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    October 23, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    ​ "it's new york lol same shit lastnight some car was on fire in Fordham crazyy ass shit look." Twitpic by Itlabia. Can you believe last week at this time we were still thinking about Balloon Boy? Yes, that's how we passed our time before Steve Phillips, his "tubby temptress," and other exci ... More >>

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    October 20, 2009

    Armey to March for 3rd-Party Candidate in NY-23 as Conservatives "Send a National Message"

    ​National conservatives continue to push hard for the defeat of Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava in New York's 23rd Congressional District. Despite the frantic efforts of the local GOP and Scozzafava's endorsement by Newt Gingrich, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman (pictured) has r ... More >>

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    October 18, 2009

    More right-wing agita in NY-23

    ​The national Republican battle over the race to replace Secretary of the Army Bill Owen in the House ratcheted up this week, with conservative icon (and former House ideological purity enforcer) Newt Gingrich injecting himself on behalf of Republican social moderate Dede Scozzafava. Scozzaf ... More >>

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    October 15, 2009

    GOP, Conservative Candidates Duke It Out in NY-23; Democrat Gains Lead

    ​The NY-23 Congressional race, in which the Conservative Party is promoting candidate Doug Hoffman against Republican Dede Scozzafava, whom they consider too liberal (she's pro-choice and pro-gay), recently got more hilarious. GOP preacher/Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is coming to spea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Conservatives Attack Republican in NY-23; Democrat Smiles

    Republicans usually have an advantage in New York's 23rd Congressional District, but in the campaign to replace Congressman John McHugh there, conservatives have gone all out to attack the Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava. It's not that they're fond of Democrat Bill Owens (though, like most u ... More >>

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