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In yesterday's look at how Blue America's 2006 candidates fared in 2008, we mentioned that three of our unsuccessful 2006 House candidates, came back roaring this year and beat their opponents. Turns out they were the only House candidates who did. For Donna Edwards, Larry Kissell and Eric Massa the second time was indeed the charm. This morning's CQPolitics published a study showing that it rarely...
Reader Elmer sends today's Corning Leader story and photo [pdf] showing Eric Massa cutting the ribbon for the AIDS quilt display at the Southeast Steuben Public Library in Corning.
WETM has Eric Massa's take on a Detroit bailout. Massa wants to see strings similar to those attached to the 1979 Chrysler loan. The D&C looked into CEO contributions in the Rochester-area congressional races. Wegman's CEO went all-in for Massa, while the Corning CEO put his money on Kuhl.
In an election year full of surprises, Eric Massa delivered a big one: he convinced a bunch of core conservative Southern Tier voters to take a chance on him. He did it by running a dogged, enthusiastic and disciplined campaign, the likes of which are rarely seen in New York. Massa began the 2008 race shortly after losing in 2006. He predicted that he had to raise $3 million to win. It looks like...
Fighting29th has a very good summary of Eric Massa's online fundraising efforts: According to ActBlue , the Democratic fundraising site, Eric Massa raised an astonishing $724K from over 12,000 donors online. That's an average of about 50 bucks per donor. [....] Last cycle, Massa raised $415K from around 7,200 ActBlue supporters. [....] Some might object to ActBlue on the grounds that it allows influence...
ALBANYâRepresentative-elect Eric Massa gave a special shout-out to bloggers who helped him win his bid to unseat Representative Randy Kuhl. "I just want to take a minute to thank all the readers of Rochester Turning and all the blogger community," Massa said during a Friday evening victory party in Pittsford. The Corning Democrat raised over $700,000 online through the progressive blog community...
ALBANY—Representative-elect Eric Massa gave a special shout-out to bloggers who helped him win his bid to unseat Representative Randy Kuhl. read more »
I must admit that it was tremendous relief to see Eric Massa elected to the House of Representatives. I don’t know, maybe it’s the Veteran connection or simply watching him connect with voters. Of course, we do share a common philosophy. There are a lot of things to discuss and reflect upon over the past [...]
Randy Kuhl finally conceded this past Friday and there was a victory party Friday night. RT was there as were a couple of media outlets - RNews had this story and video. Congressman-elect Eric Massa returned that Friday night from Freshman orientation and shared stories and insight in the speech he gave, as well as [...]
According to ActBlue , the Democratic fundraising site, Eric Massa raised an astonishing $724K from over 12,000 donors online. That's an average of about 50 bucks per donor. In contrast, the Obama campaign raised half a billion dollars from 3 million donors. That's about $167 per donor on average. About 2 1/2% of those voting in the presidential race donated to Obama. Though Obama's totals are getting...
It’s official (finally). Massa declared victory yesterday in the extremely tight congressional race in NY-29, and incumbent Republican Randy Kuhl conceded. I get the sense from Kuhl’s statement that he’s relieved not to have to go back to Congress and deal with ZOMG DEPRESSION!@#@!@. Massa, I gather, is pretty excited to deal with that [...]
Following up on Massa's announcement that he has won in N-29, Randy Kuhl has conceded : I would like to congratulate my opponent on his victory. A few moments ago, I called Eric Massa to congratulate him on being elected to the 111th Congress. [....] This race was a close and tough battle to the end, and today I urge all of my supporters to give Congressman-elect Eric Massa the support and encouragement...
Congressman-elect Eric Massa held a press call today and announced that all the votes have been tallied and he is the winner in the 29th congressional district. Massa mentioned in his opening remarks that Rep. Randy Kuhl had called to congratulate Massa and offered his staff and services to make the transition a smooth one. Here are Massa's opening remarks: With all the votes counted, I am humbled...
Randy Kuhl issued the following statement a few minutes ago: I would like to congratulate my opponent on his victory. A few moments ago, I called Eric Massa to congratulate him on being elected to the 111th Congress. I would also like to sincerely thank everyone who has supported me over the last 28 years. From voting for me to volunteering for my campaign or putting a sign in their yards, words cannot...
