Posts Tagged ‘Bill Owens’
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Hoffman revokes his statement of concession (Doug Hoffman)
Statement from Hoffman explaining status of vote count and his concerns. This would be more impressive if it was accompanied by multiple requests for donations.
Owens in office illegally and maybe even with losing vote count?
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Democrats in their desperation for votes on their health care plan may have set themselves up for a rather big embarrassment regarding the special election for New York’s 23rd Congressional District. Bill Owens is not the certified winner, he contested the results November 2, and yet was sworn in by desperate Democrats in Washington. Now, not only may he be in office illegally, he might even lose the vote count once all of the votes are counted and errors in original counts are corrected. It will serve the Democrats right if the results favor Doug Hoffman and Owens has to vacate his seat.
Lie, Lie, Lie to Get Elected
Newly sworn in Congressman Bill Owens laid bare four lies less than a day after taking office. Contrary to his campaign promises, immediately upon arriving in Washington Owens:
- voted for the public option health care plan,
- voted to cut Medicare benefits,
- voted to tax health care benefits, and
- voted to increase taxes on middle income Americans.
What part of choosing Dede Scozzafava did I or any other registered Republican here in NY23 have?!
E.J. Dionne, Jr., writes Warnings from the angry middle in the Washington Post, that Bill Owens win, Dede Scozzafava’s pathetic collapse and spitefulness, and Doug Hoffman’s loss was “a rebuke to the right wing” and that the “night’s biggest loser was the national conservative political machine.” Dionne rants that the right shoved aside the local Republican’s choice to “impose” their own candidate who “went down in a heap. He posits that Owens won because conservatives “forced out” Scozzafava “the official, moderate, locally chosen Republican candidate.”
What a crock!