Moments ago, Mark and I participated in a blogger conference call with activists and campaign officials in NY-23.
My friend Ali Akbar was hosting the call. He is in NY-23 doing some reporting at 73Wire.com, where they have broken quite a number of stories already.
The first person we heard from was Matt Burns, a Republican Consultant and former spokesman for the Scozzafava campaign. He told us he did not agree with Scozzafava’s decision to endorse the Democrat Owens.He originally joined the campaign thinking that Scozzafava would be a vote against Nancy Pelosi’s reckless agenda, but, now it is clear there is only one candidate in the race who will be that voice and vote Pelosi: Doug Hoffman.
He also noted something that Newt Gingrich said, which I agree with, that in advance of the 2010 election cycle, our party needs to me be able to embrace candidates that fit their districts, even if they are moderates.
Robert Stacy McCain, who was on the call and is stationed now in the district (doing some good reporting too), had asked how the NRCC and the RNC got things so wrong with Scozzafava. Burns noted that Scozzafava was chosen locally. I don’t blame the Republican Party or the NRCC for supporting the chosen Republican candidate. I think activists need to move on from that.
One concern expressed by a Hoffman campaign official, was the number of people coming in. Democrats have a good ground game, and are mobilizing, Also, ACORN and the left-wing Working Families Party are heavily involved… now we all know that ACRON and voter fraud are like peas carrots, buth For those of you outside of New York, and aren’t familiar with the Working Families Party, you probably don’t know that this minor party has had some trouble recently with forged absentee ballots that apparently changed the outcome of an election. The Democratic Party has also put in about a million dollars in attack ads against Hoffman. Joe Biden is coming to town tomorrow. The Democrats are fighting hard, make no mistake about it.
So, we need to understand the forces that are working to get the Democrat Bill Owens elected. The Doug Hoffman campaign, however, wants clean, fair, and legal elections, and they are confident they can win if everything is above board.
So, what can you do?
Go to Doug Hoffman’s campaign website.
Follow the campaign on Twitter.
Join the campaign on Facebook.
If you live in or near the district, they need your help!
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