{"id":4861,"date":"2011-05-17T02:47:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2011-05-17T02:48:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T09:48:49","slug":"teabuggery-in-ny-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/17\/teabuggery-in-ny-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Teabuggery in NY-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I seldom contribute to out of state political races.\u00a0 I\u2019m a very poor man.\u00a0 However, in this case I could not resist making a small donation to help Kathy Holchuk buy ads to counter the Rove and Crotch brothers money.\u00a0 Her chance of winning is about even and that\u2019s an improvement.\u00a0 There\u2019s some more good news.\u00a0 Jane Corwin, the republican, has voluntarily associated herself with racism and animal porn.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"17palodino\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/17palodino.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"17palodino\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" \/>Hours after the Tea Party Express [Teabuggery delinked] held a news conference at the Jane Corwin Campaign Headquarters to endorse the Republican in the 26th District special election, the <a href=\"http:\/\/rothenbergpoliticalreport.com\/news\/article\/new-york-26-move-to-toss-up-tilt-democratic\" target=\"_blank\">Rothenberg Political Report, a respected newsletter out of D.C., classified the race as &#8220;Toss-Up\/Tilts Democratic.&#8221;<\/a> Rothenberg said, &#8220;Democrat Kathy Hochul now looks well-positioned to pull off a significant upset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many political analysts believe Hochul could achieve the victory, in large part, due to the independent candidate Jack Davis, who is running on the Tea Party line. Monday, the Tea Party Express and TEA New York used the opportunity to denounce Davis for what it calls &#8220;deceptively giving himself the &#8216;tea party&#8217; title&#8221; when he does not truly support core tea party values of the movement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carl Paladino, who ran as the Republican candidate for NY Governor last year and who had the endorsement of TEA New York, also attended the events and supports Corwin<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/news\/article\/121614\/13\/Tea-Party-Express-Endorses-Corwin-Other-GOP-Drop-Support-Over-Video-Scandal\" target=\"_blank\">WQRZ<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Rachel Maddow could not resist this one.\u00a0 She provided the details and discussed the difficulty Republicans have finding qualified candidates with Eugene Robinson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><object id=\"msnbc58fbe0\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\" target=\"_blank\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=43055168^0^519553&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" name=\"msnbc58fbe0\" flashvars=\"launch=43055168^0^519553&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px;\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Go Kathy!\u00a0 This district is so red that taking it would be noteworthy indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seldom contribute to out of state political races.\u00a0 I\u2019m a very poor man.\u00a0 However, in this case I could not resist making a small donation to help Kathy Holchuk buy ads to counter the Rove and Crotch brothers money.\u00a0 Her chance of winning is about even and that\u2019s an improvement.\u00a0 There\u2019s some more good <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/17\/teabuggery-in-ny-26\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}