Dem Candidate Focusing On Stimulus In Home Stretch -- And On Rush Limbaugh
Scott Murphy, the Democratic candidate in the March 31 special election for Kirsten Gillibrand's former House seat, is focusing on a clear set of messages in the home stretch: The stimulus, the stimulus, and the stimulus -- and Rush Limbaugh.
Murphy's campaign today held an event with local officials and small-business owners, promoting the benefits of the stimulus plan for the district's local infrastructure -- and of course, to excoriate Republican opponent Jim Tedisco for saying he would have voted against the plan.
And the Murphy camp just sent out an announcement for tomorrow's event in Ballston Spa, with this teaser line: "While Career Albany politician Jim Tedisco has apologized to Rush Limbaugh who openly called for our President to fail, he has refused to apologize to voters for saying 'No' to saving or creating 76,000 jobs Upstate, and 'No' to the largest middle class tax cut in history."
For more on the Rush Limbaugh stuff, check out this amusing link. There is a necessary correction to the Murphy camp's line: Tedisco wasn't quite apologizing to Rush, so much as he was denying he'd said anything bad in the first place.
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Will someone PLEASE do a cartoon depicting King Rush sitting on his throne . . . with his pants around his ankles and reading something by Westbrook Pegler?
March 23, 2009 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Restating what I've said elsewhere, we won't hear the end of it if Tedisco wins. Limbaugh, Gingrich, Steele, Palin, all of them will be doing the macarena over how they're taking back America for the real Americans one district at at time, and that plain ole folk have had it with Obama's Overreaching, he's now finished, secret of life is make Bush tax cuts permanent, Wasila Main Street, kept us safe, etc., etc., etc. Please America, stand with Scott Murphy when he needs us!
March 23, 2009 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Murphy Campaign: "While Career Albany politician Jim Tedisco has apologized to Rush Limbaugh who openly called for our President to fail, he has refused to apologize to voters for saying 'No' to saving or creating 76,000 jobs Upstate, and 'No' to the largest middle class tax cut in history."
Reading this claptrap statement only serves to remind me why I despise political campaigns and the clowns who run them -- and I speak as a former clown who managed three successful Democratic congressional campaigns in hotly contested races during the mid-'90s. At least I can say that I tried my best to have my candidate appeal to people's fondest hopes and brightest dreams, rather than pander to their worst instincts and darkest fears.
I fully realize that superficiality and negativity are more often than not effective when deployed successfully by most political campaigns that choose to do so, and that's certainly the easier route to take during partisan public debate. But it's also a parasitic presence on the American body politic that both paralyzes the spine and drains the soul.
March 24, 2009 11:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! It seems Scott Murphy is creating 76,000 jobs. Darn you Scott Murphy. You can't even make your losing company visible to the market and pay the outstanding unpaid taxes. Then your saying it now.
Scott Murphy is going to rubber stamp all the bills that Nancy Pelosi tells him to.
He's a product of a Washington DC slick campaign with nice commercials but don't get
fooled folks. He'll vote yes for the mortgage bailout bill and yes on a second stimulus package.
The people who got us into this mess with AIG was Barney Frank and Dodd, and it was rushed
through without thought and voted on. Exactly what Scotty Murphy did when he said he'd vote
for the first stimulus bill without reflecting on it or reading the bill.
I'm voting Tedisco for congress for fiscal responsibility.
http://www.jimtedisco.com/
March 25, 2009 9:14 AM | Reply | Permalink