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New York House GOPers -- All Three Of Them -- Voice Support For Tedisco
The NRCC has just released this statement from New York's GOP Congressional delegation, predicting a win by Jim Tedisco in NY-20:
Washington - Today, the members of New York's Republican Congressional Delegation - Reps. Peter King, John McHugh and Chris Lee - released the following statement regarding the status of the special election in New York's 20th Congressional District:
"With the election not yet certified, and the Republican advantage among absentee ballots not yet counted, we are confident that Jim Tedisco will be the next Congressman from New York's 20th Congressional District. We look forward to welcoming Jim as our colleague and working with him to address the critical issues facing upstate New Yorkers."
It's worth stopping here for a moment and considering the fact that New York, with 29 total House members, only has three Republicans in the bunch. After the 2000 elections, before the GOP brand completely crashed in the Northeast, that number was 12 Republicans out of 31. So obviously, these three guys want to have some company and rebuild their party.
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There are three left? Let's take them out in 2010.
April 1, 2009 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm pretty sure we can take out Lee as long as we can get a solid candidate who's not hopelessly outspent. Unlike this past election.
King's not going anywhere.
April 1, 2009 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
How is it that there are so few Republicans in the NY Congressional delegation, when the *state legislature* is either tied or lead by Republicans?
April 1, 2009 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
They can only gerrymander so much with the fed congressional districts. I'm sure the state gop districts are gerrymandered big time. By the way, the republicans are getting slaughtered in the assembly in NY and are behind in the senate. See this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_legislatures_in_the_United_States
April 1, 2009 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
The funny thing is the map produced in 2001/2002 was clearly intended to be a status quo protection plan, for 18 Dems and 11 Republicans (the state lost two seats).
And Democrats now have a 26-3 advantage under that very same map. Even if Tedisco were to win — and who knows, it's possible — it would be 25-4.
April 1, 2009 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am originally from McHugh's district and family members still live there. I really wish they could find a serious candidate to take him on. It is upstate NY (really, truly upstate) and pretty rural so it has a lot of those who have traditionally broken republican, but it also has a large liberal base with SUNY Plattsburgh.
April 1, 2009 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink