After Brown’s Victory, Blakeman Says “My Cell Phone Hasn’t Stopped”
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Blakeman is headed upstate today after Republican Scott Brown pulled off the upset Senate victory in Massachusetts last night.
Blakeman stopped in Albany this morning before heading to Buffalo and Rochester later today. He’s holding a press conference tomorrow in Rochester after meeting with donors and local leaders.
As the only Republican running for the U.S. Senate in New York against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Blakeman, a former Nassau County legislator and state comptroller candidate in 1998, said the results last night showed that voters are “angry, worried and frustrated. They feel their voices aren’t being heard. They want somebody to speak for them.”
He said, “People like the message Scott Brown brought. They want somebody who is akin to him. And I think we’re both on the same message.”
Blakeman said after Brown’s win, his “cell phone hasn’t stopped” with supporters calling.
Blakeman told reporters that Washington is trying to dismantle “a health-care system that has been the greatest health-care provider system in the history of the world.”
He said while there’s more that needs to be done to help the uninsured and under-insured, “that doesn’t mean dismantling a system that basically works for most New Yorkers.”
He called on Gillibrand to withdraw her support for the health-care bill.
Here’s Blakeman talking about the difference between Gillibrand and former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford, who is considering a Democratic challenge to Gillibrand. He said with either of them, “we don’t have a voice in Washington” and said they are both Washington insiders.
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How does Mr. Blakeman figure that Gillibrand—who has lived here all her life— is not a “real New Yorker?” Or is he one of those hairpins who thinks that people from the NYC metro area are the only real New Yorkers and that everybody else are hicks, whose opinion doesn’t count?
RE: Candidate for US GOP Senate Bruce Blakeman
Message to US Senate GOP candidate Bruce Blakeman team.
BB gave right answer to Social Conservatives on marriage today.
I PROMISE he will be asked LIFE positions soon, define it better.
Suggest looking at Brown website for proper answers.
Must give at least a Lazio answer on LIFE issues.
BB current answers on LIFE unacceptable.
CONSERVATIVES WILL IMPLODE BB QUICKER THEN THE LIBS WILL DO IT. DEFINE YOURSELVES NOW, DONT GET HOOKED ON MEDIA Q AND A’s NOW.
Power of the Internet can take down any candidate from either side of the isle and there base supporters in a matter of days.
Jim Kelly – NY Conservative Campaigns
jim you either want a senator that is for fiscal
conservatism or you want a senator that is for life
which is a social issue that scott brown did not
emphasize in his win…you either want fiscal sanity
in washington or you want a religious agenda…
mike long has already derailed one senatorial
candidate on that issue…you either want chuck
shumer or you don’t..your choice