I just received a statement on yesterday’s primary from UNYTEA leader Mark Barie in Plattsburgh suggesting that his group will meet tonight to decide who to support down the stretch.\u00a0 Here’s the main point of his email:<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very disappointed with the way in which the Hoffman campaign was conducted.\u00a0 It was unorganized, it lacked focus, and it failed to take advantage of Doug\u2019s tremendous popularity.\u201d said Barie, adding, \u201cDoug\u2019s senior campaign advisor (Chris Baker) ran this campaign from his office in Arizona and he was clearly ignorant of what was happening on the ground here in the North Country.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Barie says his group will meet tonight to decide what to do next.\u00a0 Here’s his full statement:<\/p>\n
Although the results of yesterday\u2019s GOP primary are still unclear, the Upstate New York Tea (UNYTEA) party is moving quickly to organize for the November elections..<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are less than seven weeks until the November election, and we intend to use that time to reorganize and to make the case to voters that Bill Owens has got to go\u201d, said Mark L Barie, Chairman of UNYTEA.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Barie acknowledged that UNYTEA\u2019s endorsed candidate, Doug Hoffman, is the apparent loser in the race. His opponent, Matt Doheny, is now leading in unofficial results by more than 600 votes.\u00a0 Approximately 1800 absentee ballots have yet to be counted.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoug would have to take about two thirds of the absentee ballots in order to win. I think that\u2019s unlikely, but we can not afford to sit idly by while the recount takes place.\u201d, said Barie.<\/strong><\/p>\n
According to Barie, UNYTEA\u2019s Steering Committee will be meeting tonight to discuss the results of the Primary.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be polling our members in the days to come and then making a decision as to the role UNYTEA will play in the Congressional race\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Barie spoke bluntly about the results.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very disappointed with the way in which the Hoffman campaign was conducted.\u00a0 It was unorganized, it lacked focus, and it failed to take advantage of Doug\u2019s tremendous popularity.\u201d said Barie, adding, \u201cDoug\u2019s senior campaign advisor (Chris Baker) ran this campaign from his office in Arizona and he was clearly ignorant of what was happening on the ground here in the North Country.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u201cSpeaking just for myself, if Doug doesn\u2019t make some personnel changes, his campaign for Congress is going no where. I think his chances for success on the Conservative Party line are minimal. This is true because, unlike last year when he came so close to defeating Bill Owens, this year\u2019s GOP nominee is not a tax and spend liberal. Matt Doheny is a fiscal conservative\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Barie stopped short of formally endorsing Doheny, saying that was up to UNYTEA\u2019s 1000 plus membership who will be polled by email and regular mail, in the next two weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just received a statement on yesterday’s primary from UNYTEA leader Mark Barie in Plattsburgh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}