The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The 29th has seen a few close races, but neither Randy Kuhl nor Eric Massa poisoned the well the way Doug Hoffman just did. Citing an ACORN conspiracy, Hoffman revoked his concession, and now he's been fundraising on claims of "tampering" based on ordinary election-night screwups. This is what happens when a candidate is looking for approval from forces outside the district. It may play...
rochesterturning.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Out of my cold, dead hands I was driving to work last night and happened to follow a red van with an American flag in the back window, surrounded by bullet hole decals and an NRA sticker. The van had these bumper stickers, from left to right: “Charlton Heston is my President” “FUBO” “McCain/Palin” “Out of my cold, dead hands” License [...] Related posts:...
The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Joe Dunning's column in the Leader was appropriately tough on Tom Reed's campaign, which has made a number of tactical errors in the past months. But, to his credit, Reed made one strategic decision that trumps most of those errors: he started early. A majority of voters won't be paying close attention to this race until well over a year from now, and by then many of Reed's missteps will be ancient...
The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Reader Richard sends Randy Kuhl's fundraising letter for Tom Reed [pdf] . Here's a sample: Specifically, Massa is on the record in favor of a single-payer government administered healthcare system that would ration healthcare, and has voted to support the Presidents so-called "stimulus" package that funded liberal pet projects without any boost to our economy. The whole thing is worth a...
Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
If the 2010 Republican ticket was 100% up to me, this would be the line of candidates on the Republican ticket for 2010 : Governor - Rudy Giuliani. Lt.Governor - Rick Lazio. Senator (against Schumer) - Congressman Randy Kuhl. Senator (against Gillibrand) - George Pataki. 29th congressional district - Tom Reed (Mayor of Corning, New York). 26th congressional district - Christopher Lee (Congressman)....
rochesterturning.com (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
RT has a a small internal posting glitch - this is a test post blah blah blah Share and Enjoy: Related posts:Statement from KuhlMore D&C Editorial page nonsense - Sorry guys the Midtown Plaza project does not equal Maggie’s unF.A.I.R. planIf it tastes like pork– Randy Kuhl’s “smell test” Related posts: Statement from Kuhl More D&C Editorial page nonsense - Sorry...
Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
The 29th congressional district in New York state is a hard study, the district is a very Conservative, very Republican district, however elections between Republican & Democrat congressional candidates has only been down to the wire. As Republican Congressman Randy Kuhl defeated Democrat congressional candidate Eric Massa by 6,000 votes in the 2006 election cycle, and Democrat Congressman Eric...
rochesterturning.com (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
American Quest is looking for the help of the Blue Dog Democrats to push though Anthony Weiner’s amendment in September. Weiner’s amendment would replace the text of HR 3200 with HR 676. So many have been drinking the Kool-aid of , “676 is dead in the water”. Now it’s time to show that the US [...] Related posts: Randy Kuhl to introduce a Bill to Nowhere Floor vote for...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Blue America supported Eric Massa when he first ran against corrupt Bush crony Randy Kuhl in 2006. He nearly won and Blue America encouraged him to run again in 2008-- which he did. He won that race 51-49%, even though NY-29 only gave Obama 48% of it's vote at the same time, one of only 4 of New York's 29 congressional districts where McCain won. Some politicians would be frightened by that and kowtow...
The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
The Democrat and Chronicle has an editorial commending Eric Massa for having an open town hall meeting, and dinging Slaughter, Lee and Maffei for choosing "telephone town halls" and other types of non-public meetings. This brings up a point on the politics of protests: the reaction is just as important as the action. Noisy or unruly protests are provocative events. If the target of the protest...
The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Eric Massa's Thursday night meeting in Mendon will be the target of a group called "ReformNYS". In a message posted on that group's mailing list , a list member posted the following: Lets give him [Massa] what Arlen Spector just got in PA on the "Health Care Bill" What Spector "just got" was a bunch of people yelling during his meeting , drowning out the speakers and...
The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Reader Don sends WETM's teaser for a Randy Kuhl interview , which contains this gem from the former Representative: You know when I first ran for public office way back in 1980 I took it with the understanding that someday people are going to want hamburger instead of steak. Randy's planning on supporting Tom Reed next year. Perhaps Reed will have a better strategy for luring back Republicans who...
The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | 07/19/2009
Reader Elmer sends today's Corning Leader front page [pdf] (and jump [pdf] ) with a story about Tom Reed's new hires. His campaign manager will be a veteran of the 2006 New York State Governor's race who has ties to the national party. Reed's staff is quite different from Randy Kuhl's. Kuhl's 2006 campaign manager was his son, and his 2008 manager had nothing like the experience of Reed's new hire....
The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
We're going to learn a lot about Tom Reed in the next few weeks and months. Reed finds himself in much the same spot as Eric Massa did in 2005. He's unknown in most of the district, never held a legislative position, and he doesn't have a lot of money. How Reed introduces himself will tell us a lot about the kind of candidate he is, and whether he has a chance to beat Eric Massa. My main interest...
the albany project (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Congressman Eric Massa was asked where he stood on the war supplemental and Massa gave a clear answer to Howie Klein : I held George W. Bush accountable and I will not vote for any more Iraq war funding until we have a strategy in place and under way to bring our troops home. This is not about Democrats vs. Republicans, it's about our troops and I will not bend in this position. Massa stood by his...
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