Cox Says Scozzafava Made An “Emotional Decision” To Back Democrats
Ed Cox, the state GOP chairman, said he spoke with Dede Scozzafava soon after she decided Saturday to suspend her campaign in the 23rd congressional district. He said the Republican candidate was sobbing on the phone and was then pressured by Democrats to back Democratic candidate Bill Owens.
“She made the right decision in suspending her campaign, but in her conversation with me right after that, she was in an emotional state. She was sobbing,” Cox said.
“And she made an emotional decision under a lot of pressure from the White House and the person she considered who would be the next governor of New York, in her mind, Andrew Cuomo, and Speaker Silver, who guaranteed her a job in the Assembly.”
A Silver spokesman said no offer was made.
Cox said the state GOP will be stronger because of its experience in the race. He and other Republican leaders are now backing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.
“We’re dealing with a very strong and growing political force that is reacting to the Democratic policies in Washington and in Albany,” Cox said. “We as a party will harness these forces all the way into next year and that will make a very strong force in New York state politics.”
Former state Democratic chairwoman June O’Neill, who has been coordinating the Democrats campaign in the district, blasted Republicans who once backed Scozzafava for criticizing her now.
“As a resident of the 23rd congressional district, I want to thank Dede Scozzafava for her extraordinary show of courage and doing the right thing, and standing up and saying we can’t turn this congressional district over to the radical right,” she said.
O’Neill said the national conservatives’ message won’t work in the closely knit district.
“The fact that these outsiders have come into our home with their hate-mongering tactics and their obnoxious behavior and their telling us everything they are against and not what they are for, I find it personally offensive,” she said.
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Wow. So Cox apparently thinks that women are too “emotional” to make smart, rational decisions? Could it be instead, that a reasonable, moderate person does not want her community to be represented by a right-wing fringe candidate? No, Cox must be right, she’s just another overly-emotional, sobbing woman who needs men like him to tell her how to think.
“Outsiders coming into our home”?
Is she talking about Biden or Rahm Emanuel?
mr cox better be sure that in districts that are not as
conservative as the one containing plattsburgh messina
malone, and watertown, that republicans are as far right
as mr hoffman…it seems to me that as state chairman
mr cox ought to be equally concerned with the fact that
the far right of the national party has come into a
district in his state and has co opted dthe nominee of
one of his county committees
Cox is making a big mistake early, he already directed much GOP money into a losing race in Westchester County for County Executive.
Cox appears not to be a wise man, just because he is realated to Nixon is not an indication of his political awareness.
directing money into the highest taxed county in the nation
to unseat a three term incumbant is a smart move ..no
such thing as too much money.you know of any other races
around the state that are bellweather county elections
plus the recent siena poll bears out that cox is correct
more money in fact earlier would have been even more
effective but cox didn’t get there until recently so your
ananlysis is off
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