Will the North Country lead NY’s next big Republican insurrection?
Tonight at the state Republican convention in New York City, Essex County GOP chair Ron Jackson is thinking about pushing a no-confidence vote for state leader Ed Cox.
“If the only thing stopping us from getting united is Mr. Cox, I probably will,” Jackson told the Glens Falls Post-Star on Monday. “I’ll play it by ear, but I’d say it’s more likely than not.”
Cox, of course, is backing a Democrat, Suffolk county executive Steve Levy, in the governor’s race. Supporters of Rick Lazio, including Jackson, are furious.
Meanwhile, another North Country activist, tea party organizer Mark Barie, is stirring up the Republican world by backing Essex County accountant Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 race.
“[The GOP] is a party that has had difficulty organizing, difficulty raising funds,” Barie said, “and a party that has had difficulty reading the minds and hearts of their own constituents, their own members.”
Most county GOP leaders are backing Watertown businessman Matt Doheny in the contest.
All the barbs and arrows being fired here in the region certainly make for interesting political theater, and no one is quite sure where it’s all going to lead.
But in a survey of the worst political operations in the country, Politico singled out the Empire state’s GOP.
The Empire State is so full of massively mismanaged GOP campaigns, it would be impossible to choose just one for a list of the year’s biggest flops…
If Woody Allen was right that 90 percent of life is just showing up, the New York GOP must be betting heavily on the other 10 percent.
Ouch. We’ll see if the party leaders meeting in NYC can put a happier face on things, but it’s hard to see how.
Nothing big will happen, they’ll just fight and squabble and try to claw their way to the middle. What a waste.
If the GOP leads or gains from any kind of “insurrection,” then God help us if we go “Back to that Future.”
People are falling for the oldest con game in politics from the biggest bunch of con artists that have mastered the PR, gimmick and flim-flam games: the GOP. They must never ever be given the rein of government again.
Good grief, have people forgotten 2001-2009 and the near collapse of the world’s entire economic structure? Two unfunded wars? Anarchy at home with lawlessness (NSA, FBI, and CIA abuses)?
~ Dan Francis (Watertown, NY)
And just what has changed since The Beloved Leader Obama took office Dan? Nothing, just more spending (a trillion new dollars of debt every 10 months), a weakening dollar, a failing economy and an United Sates that is abandoning it’s allies. Obviously the Democrats aren’t the answer either.
bret-4207: I toally agree with you about the spending at first blush on one hand, but on the other, a ton of experts say it was necessary to have helped stopped the fiscal/economic bleeding (or gushing) Mr. Obama got from day-one.
I am also against the sustained deficit speding and especially the massive foreign borrowing (and more so, from China). That really bothers me.
I am fiscally conservative (even though many people do not think I am, but I am) … I also hate waste and abuse of our tax dollars … that comes from over 40 years of combined military and DOD/Dept of the Army experience where I managed budets from time-to-time in the millions, and I always tried to conserve the best I could within the guidelines that Congress had set.
Dan Francis (Watertown, NY)
Bret,
All this destruction of the USA organized by the GOP. Now that we are on the road to recovery, the GOP hates it and is doing everything it can to undermine our leaders in fixing their mess, because it looks bad for them. Did you forget the GOP has been leading the country since 2000? I hope people have finally learned from their mistake. Just like they did in the first Bush administration.
Recovery??? We’re about to head into the second descent of a double-dip recession because of Obama’s clueless approach to governing. The Campaigner-In-Chief can’t talk his way out of continued high unemployment, the falling value of our dollar, and the Reid-Pelosi led debacle that is our Congress.
Can’t you unimaginative Democrat Party hacks come up with some new stratgey than it’s all Bush and the Republican’s fault. You’ve controlled Congress for the past three-plus years, and we all know that is where the power lies, not the White House.
If you blame Bush for the Dem-controlled Congress, then you must also blame Obama.
Can you handle the truth??
Mike3281- Yeah, yeah, it was all the GOP spending those dollars. I keep forgetting that. Wasn’t a single Democrat in Congress all those years, voting for wars, voting to borrow, voting for their own pet programs, don’t know how I keep forgetting that.
JD Gray- Always go with Plan B- Blame Bush!
Dan, the problem is- nothing has changed. Gitmo is still open, they’re still using warrantless taps, we’re still in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re borrowing more and more with no end in sight, The President goes on vacation instead of taking charge in the Gulf, the economy is about to plummet even further later this summer when the next round of commercial foreclosures start…. NOTHING had changed. Obama has the House, the Senate, the media and most of the Nation ready for him to lead and whats he doing? Shooting basketball and vacationing. He ha no clue what to do, a complete empty suit. And I thought Bush was an idiot!
There is no difference in the 2 major parties, Last years senate race proved that, the only party is the incumbant party
People like dan francis ,are the problem. Its time people woke up.
vote for Warren Redlich, Libertarian candidate for governor
Dale merchant says:
June 1, 2010 at 11:26 pm
People like dan francis ,are the problem. Its time people woke up.
Maybe you could expand on that just a little Dale?
bret and dale,
i thinks yoos guys are the problem