Another special congressional election for NY
Today’s announcement by freshman Rep. Eric Massa of Corning that he is resigning from office once again sets up a special congressional election in New York’s 29th Congressional District.
It’ll be the third in a year.
Democrats won the two special elections held last year, but that was before widespread voter unrest with Congress and disillusionment with the Obama administration.
It also comes on the heels of scandals involving three prominent New York lawmakers: Gov. David Paterson, Harlem Rep. Charlie Rangel and Massa.
The special election last spring to fill the 20th Congressional District seat vacated by Kirsten Gillibrand received widespread attention when another Democrat, Scott Murphy, won in the Republican-leaning Hudson Valley district.
But the attention given to that race paled in comparison to the national coverage given to the race in the 23rd Congressional District covering the state’s North Country last fall. That race, to fill the seat vacated by John McHugh upon his confirmation as Secretary of the Army, became a national referendum on the split in the Republican Party between moderates and tea party conservatives. The split left Democrat Bill Owens an unlikely winner.
Residents of Western New York should be forewarned that come April and May they will be under a national microscope.
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You can fool some of the voters some of the time but you cannot fool all of the voters all the time like the Democ”RATS” did in 2006 and 2008 and 2010 they are going to pay he price by losing control of Congress.
Before there was the “Oracle at Delphi” there was
Count Vampire J. Machiavelli
VJ Machiavelli
No More Schumer, Pelosi, Rangel,Engel, and Arthur Finkelstein & Co
Memo to NYGOP/Levy/Faso/Callaghan/Garcia the wining ticket in 2010