Per a story on Washington Independent:
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — At a short press availability in his campaign office here, NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman said that a GOTV volunteer’s tires had been slashed, and all but blamed Democrats for the dirty trick.
Golly! Did the volunteer have a backwards "O" for Owens scraped into his cheek, too?
More on the flip:
Well, now. While the volunteer in question claimed to have his tires slashed, the police say:
Anton Troianovski of the Wall Street Journal followed up with the Plattsburgh police on this, and was told that the volunteer actually damaged his tire on a broken bottle.
Ah, but the Freepers have their own opinion; it was definitely union thugs. (And Plattsburgh has a gay mayor, even though it's cold up there!)
Both of these points are true, but I fail to see what it has to do with dirty tricks. Like these:
"We've gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters," said O'Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party's GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23. Daily News
I live in the area (though not in NY-23.) Everybody knows everyone else around here, and this is not something we get rowdy about.
"Apparently, there's some woman claiming to be a commissioner," O'Neill continued. "Commissioner of what, I don't know. She's from Texas, I think, and she won't leave."
"This is not the way we roll in the North Country."
Maybe I move in the right circles, but I haven't talked to anyone who wants to vote for Hoffman. One person, pro-business and a New England-type Republican, mentioned that, "Hoffman must be insane to speak out against earmarks. This area needs the jobs! It's not pork when we use the money to fix bridges and get other things we need."
But I believe the district has been sending Republicans to Congress since the 1850's. This, however, is different.
It's whacked.