Scozzafava Calls the Cops

The election contest in New York's 23rd district is in turmoil because of the Tea Party movement. It appears that the Republicans have nominated a person who appears to be running on the Democrat platform. From the Weekly Standard ...

Tonight, Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate for the November 3 special election in the 23rd congressional district, spoke to about 100 Republicans at the Lewis County GOP dinner at the Elks Lodge 1605. After a dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, Scozzafava fended off criticism that she wasn't as conservative as third-party candidate Doug Hoffman and urged her supporters to vote for her in order to keep her Democratic opponent Bill Owens from serving as a rubber stamp for Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama's agenda in Washington. It was a fairly typical evening--until the speech ended and someone with Scozzafava's campaign called the police. On me.

For the details, read the whole thing.

Here's some detail from Dump Dede.

“Scozzafavva is pro gay-marriage, pro abortion, and supported by an ACORN affiliated and directed political party. All three of these disqualify her from receiving our support. I’ve told Dede this, and every Republican leader in the 23rd Congressional District knows this. I’ll give you a couple of other examples of how bad her record of liberal activism is. In this most recent session of the Assembly, on the votes she cast in the Assembly, we gave her a 15% rating. The very liberal Speaker of the Assembly, who comes from the most liberal part of Manhattan has a 10% rating. She’s hardly any different from him!”

An Independent is running, and running well.


The Republican establishment is in danger of committing suicide if it ignores the people of this country, if it ignores the Tea Party activists, if it follows Newt Gingrich off the cliff.

A personal note on Newt. He was one of my heroes years ago. He is an excellent polemicist. But in person I found him to be arrogant and condescending. Perhaps it was the question I asked, perhaps he had a bad day, but my taste of Newt - up close and personal - turned me off. And his most recent political moves have confirmed my earlier impressions; he's not the leader for the future.