Republicans Catch a Break in NY-20
Libertarian Eric Sundwall, who collected twice as many signatures as he needed to make the ballot in the NY-20 special election, might be bounced out of the election anyway.
Libertarian Eric Sundwall, who collected twice as many signatures as he needed to make the ballot in the NY-20 special election, might be bounced out of the election anyway.
Jim Tedisco, the Republican candidate in the special election in New York’s 20th Congressional District, has seized onto the AIG bonus outrage and is upping the ante basically every day. Yesterday, he demanded the resignation of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and knocked his Democratic opponent, Scott Murphy, for not More…
Jim Tedisco, the Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District race who took weeks to explain that he would have voted against the economic stimulus package, is attacking Democrat Scott Murphy for supporting it — on the grounds that the stimulus is responsible for AIG’s bonus scandal.
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Yesterday, Albany Times Union reporter Irene Jay Liu filed a story about the National Republican Trust PAC taking its anti-Scott Murphy ad off the air temporarily in the race for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s vacated seat in New York’s 20th Congressional District.
Today, Liu spoke to Scott Wheeler More…
Reid Wilson reports that 82 House Republicans have donated to State Rep. Jim Tedisco’s campaign for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D) vacated seat in New York’s 20th Congressional District. The reason:
Though officials at the NRCC warn the race will be close, privately Republican strategists say a loss would
Congresswoman-turned-Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) is on the air in New York’s 20th Congressional District with a soft-focus endorsement of the Democrat who wants her old House seat, Scott Murphy. Gillibrand is, by miles, the most popular politician in the district — this week’s Siena Poll gave her a 78 More…
Democrat Scott Murphy is galloping to catch up with Republican Jim Tedisco in the race for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s vacated seat in New York’s 20th Congressional District, according to the new Siena Research Institute Poll. The trend lines are from the last poll released on February 26.
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Jim Geraghty reports that Republicans are starting to worry about the race for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) old House seat, a chunk of upstate New York where Republicans outnumber Democrats, and where the GOP has not-so-quietly talked about a confidence-building victory.
“The first poll had the Republican up 25,
I’m hearing that New York Assemblyman Tim Gordon, who represents a chunk of Senator-designate Kirsten Gillibrand’s open House seat in New York’s 20th Congressional District, is being courted by Democrats to run in the March special election. The sticking point: Gordon is a member of the Independence Party, not More…