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NY-19 John Hall set to take down Sue Kelly... UPDATED w/ POLL!!

by danwalter

Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 01:59:35 PM PDT

CQ Politics story about the campaign to unseat rabid Bush supporter Sue Kelly.
"Hall came from behind to easily defeat early front-runner Judy Aydelott, a lawyer and former Republican whose initial show of fundraising strength persuaded much of the Democratic Party establishment -- including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee -- to pick her as their choice in the four-candidate primary field. Hall garnered 49 percent of the vote over Aydelott, who finished second among voters with 27 percent."
Kelly is one of the BushCo Five, along with Knollenberg, Issa, Bono and Young:: The Worst Representatives for Children, Children's Defense Fund Scorecard: Rep. Sue W. Kelly (R) 22% The Worst Representatives for Seniors: Retired Americans Scorecard: Rep. Sue W. Kelly (R) 0% The Best Representatives for Corporate America Business and Industry Political Action Committee (Whose motto is: "Electing Business to Congress") Rep. Sue W. Kelly (R) 86% She voted: * for the pro-business, anti-consumer bankruptcy bill. * to weaken the Endangered Species Act * cut taxes for the most wealthy Americans * weaken regulations to protect consumers and workers *to give tax breaks to the wealthy and opposed a plan that would have increased spending for education, health care, low-income programs, veterans and critical children's programs by reducing tax cuts given to people making more than $1 million a year. *to limit spending on discretionary programs including Head Start, child abuse prevention, and juvenile justice; cut $34.7 billion from programs with guaranteed funding for poor children, including $10 billion from Medicaid; and allow for an additional $70 billion in tax cuts. * for substantial cuts to health care spending, Medicare, Medicaid, medical research, and vital programs such as the Older Americans Act. * to weaken pension protections. * against lower prescription prices for seniors and the disabled.
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Can Dems take NY-19?

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72%57 votes

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  •  Who? (1+ / 0-)

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    Oh, yeah, he was the blond one in Hall & Oates, right?

    Hige sceal že heardra, heorte že cenre, mod sceal že mare, že ure męgen lytlaš

    by milkbone on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 01:56:29 PM PDT

    •  John Hall (1+ / 0-)

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      AaronBa

      was in the band Orleans. He wrote "Dance With Me," among other songs for that band.  He also had a fairly successful solo career and was instrumental in producing the "No Nukes" concerts and albums.

      Humans are not dangerous so much from our ignorance, but from what we damn well know for sure. - anon

      by sjtaylor on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 02:03:52 PM PDT

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  •  Pimping my John Hall diary from earlier today (1+ / 0-)

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    http://www.dailykos.com/...

    My feeling was that if Judy Adylott, the ex-GOP candidate won the nomination, Sue Kelly would win handily, but that if Hall won, the momentum would be his. I fel that we even more so today.

    Stop bitching and start a revolution!

    by Randian on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 01:58:36 PM PDT

  •  Just a recommendation... (1+ / 0-)

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    AaronBa

    I think the diary would be a lot better if you included some quotes from the CQ story.  e.g.

    "Kelly, who had no Republican primary opposition, raised a whopping $1.7 million in total receipts as of Aug. 23, and her $1.3 million cash on hand nearly equaled all the money that Aydelott and Hall had raised combined.

    She will waste no time in relentlessly casting Hall as ideologically incompatible with the district while attempting to distance herself from the president and cast herself as an independent-minded centrist. Congressional Quarterly’s vote studies show she has sided with Bush on average of 75 percent of legislative votes on which the president has publicly stated a position."

    Just a thought.

    "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." James Madison, Federalist No. 10.

    by Mike McL on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 02:09:41 PM PDT

  •  what I've heard (0+ / 0-)

    over the years from people who live in her district is that she's an in-your-face liar especially to Democrats.  Has absolute fealty to her Party's Beltway mafia, too, whatever the appearances.

    MoveOn.org has badly torpedoed her neighbor and buddy in that practice, Nancy Johnson, with a few hundred thousand dollars in ads exposing this kind of behavior.  You'd think Hillary Clinton or Eliot Spitzer could get their donors or the NYDP or MoveOn to pay for a few shells to lob Kelly's way.   The woman certainly doesn't deserve the 70/30 election victories she's been getting.

    Renewal. Not mere reforms. We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. Martin Luther King Jr.

    by killjoy on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 02:40:48 PM PDT

  •  Wheres the quote from? (0+ / 0-)

    Nice grouping of useful information there.

    Is that compiled by yourself or from another source?

    Grassroots from the NY-19.

    by MrMacMan on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 06:55:48 PM PDT

  •  From a money aspect... (0+ / 0-)

    John needs at least half a mill in three weeks.  D-Trip and like '08 candidates aren't gunna help...neither will a 527....

    Sue Kelly's got 1.3 Million on hand...John Hall has barely 140k....

    and that Half a mill will be to barely keep afloat...Sue Kelly can pick up any phone and triple whatever he raises...

    You can give all you want, it's still gunna be hard as hell to raise that kind of money.  and it would have been for any candidate.

    by Dems in 06 cross the land on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 09:15:51 PM PDT

  •  Unity rally today (1+ / 0-)

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    Hall and the other candidates along with  Herman Farrell, the NYS Dem Chair are holding a unity rally/press conference today in Beacon at two pm. So that's a start. But you're right about the need to fundraise. I know that John's been in contact with Rahm Emmanuel, who likes John's chances, so who knows, maybe tha nationa party's about to help out. We'll see.

    Stop bitching and start a revolution!

    by Randian on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 03:09:13 AM PDT

    •  doubtful (0+ / 0-)

      The DNC has refused to give money to races up until this week (Dean's been giving state parties money and NYS is fairly well off).

      I doubt Rahm's going to put this race on the list of 60 that the DNC will help out.  and even then, it's still not going to be enough.

      I'd put a bet that Reynolds would allocate a good chunk of change to Kelly (both are NY Rs in the House) also Ken Mehlman and the RNC may be able to help out as well.  

      I'm very skeptical that John Hall is gunna have the funds to pull it off.

      by Dems in 06 cross the land on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 01:15:57 PM PDT

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      •  perfect attitude to victory (0+ / 0-)

        i don't care about your doubt, i care if your willing to help and willing to get the message out there that this is a competitive race we can win.

        Grassroots from the NY-19.

        by MrMacMan on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 02:11:46 PM PDT

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        •  help on Take19 (0+ / 0-)

          If you don't have money, how about donating some time? Take19 needs help to continue making the case against Sue. Check out the blog and send us a note (take19 at gmail.com) and offer to volunteer a few hours. Sue is already sounding the tired old tax-and-spend liberal theme in her note to supporters. She has buckets of money -- money that is being used to pay for one of Pat Buchanan's chief strategists, so we can expect lots of dirty tricks over the next few weeks.

          by Take19 on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 06:19:39 AM PDT

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