Scozzafava's feud with conservatives gets ugly
One of the most prominent conservatives in the country, Bill Kristol, is wading into the right-of-center hate-fest in NY-23.
The plot thickened yesterday when Dede Scozzafava's Republican campaign called the cops because of the behavior of a reporter from the Weekly Standard.
The WS is Kristol's political journal and it's usually loyal to GOP candidates.
Here's Kristol's take:
[John McCormack] had attended a Scozzafava campaign event, tried to ask the candidate a few questions -- and the Scozzafava campaign had called the police.Here's the Scozzafava campaign's account, via Politico:
“This self-described reporter repeatedly screamed questions (in-your-face-style) while our candidate was doing what she is supposed to be doing: speaking with voters (remember, those who will decide this election?).Kristol isn't buying it.
And then he followed the candidate to her car, continuing to carry on in a manner that would make the National Enquirer blush. I have no doubt he intended to follow her home, too. His actions were reprehensible. Those are the facts.”
This is ludicrous. Needless to say, the police found nothing amiss. Moreover, the fact is that John didn’t interrupt a conversation between Ms. Scozzafava and voters -- she wasn’t talking to voters when John approached her.It just doesn't get any worse than this for Scozzafava...Whatever she wants her message to the Republican base to be in these last two weeks of the campaign, this can't be it.
Nor did John “scream,” nor did he get “in the face” of the candidate -- he was at least ten feet away from her in the parking lot, partly because a Scozzafava staffer interposed himself as John tried to ask substantive public policy questions of Ms. Scozzafava. The notion that John intended to “follow her home” is of course risible.
Labels: election09
posted by David Sommerstein @ 10/20/2009 01:05:00 PM
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6 Comments:
Boy was I surprised to see this story at Talking Points Memo:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/ny23-gop-campaign-and-weekly-standard-feud-read-the-emails.php?ref=fpa
I feel sorry for Scozzafava, but it is a cogent reason for a middle-of-the-roader not to vote for her. If elected, she would have the weight of the Republican party ideologues landing on top of her, and I don't think she'd be able to fight them off.
It doesn't suprise me that Ms Scozzafava avoids talking to the media when they ask questions she is either afraid or ashamed of answering, i for one will not vote for her although i have never voted any other way than repulican but this time Doug Hoffman will get my vote because of Ms Scozzafa vas inability to do as her constituents would want, shes only out for herself, and we also read that she is considering swith hitting going over to the democrats, that wouldn't suprise me either, its the nature of the beast
she is a bottom feeder just like the other self serving creeps that she is running against and has served with in albany. When will people smarten up and ditch all these scum.
Dede is a nice person, but she's not the right person for the job.
Dede is not a nice person, I as a college student went to visit her and many other representatives in Albany one year and she was anything but kind. We were supposed to be able to speak to all of them about issues in the SUNY system and she was the only one that shrugged my questions off. She was very smug and arrogant and coming from a person from Gouverneur, 20 miles from where I grew up I find this rather inconsiderate to the voting population. She really did not care what I had to say and she really wasn't all that busy. So I am glad she is going through all of this ridicule and hope she does not get elected!
Maybe it's just you then because she's always been more than nice to me in any dealings I've had with her.
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