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The National Organization for Marriage’s Bill for NY-23: $112,736.75

By | 11.23.09 | 8:52 am

David Hart has the scoop: The National Organization for Marriage spent more than $100,000 on get-out-the-vote efforts for the failed (yes, really) campaign of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in NY-23. NOM’s work for Hoffman — it also paid for hand-outs distributed by the Susan B. Anthony List More…

NY-23: What’s Doug Hoffman Thinking?

By | 11.19.09 | 11:27 am

So what is defeated Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman doing by casting doubt on the results of the NY-23 special election? The most obvious answer, suggested by that letter, is fundraising. It was an expensive race, and Hoffman put some of his own cash on the line, so More…

NY-23: Hoffman Accuses ACORN, Unions of ‘Tampering’ With Election

By | 11.19.09 | 9:04 am

As the very, very small chance of a late upset vanishes in NY-23, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is lashing out and accusing “ACORN, the unions and the Democratic Party” of tampering with the election.

Hoffman’s getting some brushback from local Republicans. George Williams, chairman of the Oswego More…

NY-23: Do You Believe in Miracles?

By | 11.17.09 | 8:51 am

Notwithstanding analyses of the remaining ballots in the NY-23 special election, which suggest that Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) will solidify his win, defeated Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is still talking about an upset.

NY-23: Hoffman, Holding Out Hope

By | 11.16.09 | 9:49 am

Doug Hoffman, he failed Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election is clearly relishing the surprise twist in his election – errors in the count that have put him only around 3,000 votes behind his opponent, Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.), with around 6,000 absentee ballots outstanding. He appeared More…

NY-23: Hoffman Campaign Looks at Overturning the Election

By | 11.12.09 | 11:05 am

On election night, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman conceded defeat to Democratic candidate Bill Owens after dramatically under-performing in key counties and deciding that he couldn’t overcome the gap. Today, the campaign is “looking very closely” at a recanvass of the district that has revealed, as recanvasses often do, More…

Huckabee: Conservative Party Asked Me Not to Get Involved in NY-23 (Video)

By | 11.04.09 | 8:21 pm

Here’s another nugget from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s appearance today in Washington. Huckabee caught some heat from the right, particularly from RedState’s Erick Erickson, for withholding his endorsement for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman until Republican Dede Scozzafava had dropped out of the race.

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NY-23: The Newt Effect

By | 11.04.09 | 11:43 am

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — Early last night, when the mood at NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s campaign headquarters was a lot lighter than it later became, campaign communications director Rob Ryan told me that there were two major inflection points in the race. The first was when the Club More…

Conservatives Rework Rhetoric After NY-23 Loss

By | 11.04.09 | 6:45 am

Saranac Lake, N.Y. – Jim Kelly walked into the lounge of the Hotel Saranac, his red tie undone and flapping against his shirt. He sighed. He plopped into a chair.

“Four thousand votes,” he said. “That couldn’t fill up one side of seats at Shea Stadium.”

[GOP]For two weeks back More…

NY-23: Watertown Mayor: ‘It’s Over’

By | 11.03.09 | 10:50 pm

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. – I caught Watertown, N.Y., Mayor Jeff Graham, who endorsed NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman this weekend, looking very glum at Hoffman’s election party. I asked him what happened in Jefferson County, where Watertown is located, and where Democrat Bill Owens is leading the vote.

“We More…