Rep. Scott Murphy’s campaign just announced that Former President Bill Clinton will campaign with him in Clifton Park next Monday, the day before his election against Chris Gibson.
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“The number one issue in this election is jobs and the economy,” Murphy’s spokesman Josh Schwerin wrote in an e-mail. “President Clinton oversaw record surpluses and a booming economy. He knows that Scott Murphy has the business experience necessary to move our economy forward and bring back the strong economy we saw while Clinton was in office.”
The two will hold a rally in Clifton Park; the exact time and place have yet to be determined.
Scott Tax-U-Alot Murphy must be in real trouble for Bubba to roll into town. Karl Rove's ads for Chris Gibson have Gibson moving into the lead. Maybe Murphy can run another Sunday dinner commercial? Murphy will be one of dozens of DEMS to be thrown out of office for supporting Obama.
Go to the Murphy for Congress website ... to find out how you can get your tickets to the event Monday morning at the Hall of Springs.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
You better not cry, You better not pout Or they'll bring Hillary out Clinton Clause is coming to town.
He's bringing his boy The bagman from HUD Who caused the mortgage crisis Cuomo the dud Clinton Clause is coming to town.
He knows if you have voted He knows if you're gonna hide He'll send ACORN to your house To force their way inside. Soooooooo
You better vote often And support the louse Who created the mortgage crisis Made you lose your house Clinton Clause is coming to town.
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Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Go to the Murphy for Congress website ... to find out how you can get your tickets to the event Monday morning at the Hall of Springs.
But DV has a "....vote....Gibson....." on his FB page. Hmmmm
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Most of us have jobs and lives to lead on a Monday morning.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
BALLSTON LAKE -- With his bid to hold onto his 20th District congressional seat too close to call, Rep. Scott Murphy is calling in the Democratic Party's most-marquee names to drum up excitement.
Sunday it will be Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who represented the 10-county district in the House of Representatives until 2009, when Murphy won a special election to replace her. And Monday it will be former President Bill Clinton, who is expected to draw more than 1,000 people to a rally at the Hall of Springs in Saratoga Spa State Park.
Saturday, it was Andrew Cuomo, the attorney general and front-running gubernatorial candidate, who praised Murphy as "important not just for this district, but for this nation" before 300 people at Lakeside Farm and Cider Mill.
"We know we've got a lot of folks we've got to get to the polls to win this election; it's going to be very close," Murphy, D-Glens Falls, said. "I'm very excited to have Andrew Cuomo here today talking about his plans to move upstate New York's economy forward and the kind of common-sense solutions that I want to use to get upstate New York's economy moving forward, and things I want to do as a businessman to get people back to work."
That's been his campaign's message in a nutshell. He and his Republican opponent, retired Army Col. Chris Gibson, have sparred over whether to extend Bush-era income tax cuts -- Gibson would extend all the cuts, Murphy would let cuts for those earning more than $250,000 lapse -- whether to leave in place a health care reform bill Murphy supported, and the utility of government stimulus spending to prevent job losses.
Murphy has supported such spending and argues that it has created jobs. Gibson has said it simply forestalls needed cuts and restructuring, and makes the federal deficit balloon dangerously.
Polls show the men have argued to a standstill, and the airwaves are flooded with advertisements produced by both campaigns and Washington-based political and interest groups.
"The thing that is most important in the final 72 hours is a campaign to try and identify their voters and ensure they vote on Tuesday," said Steve Greenberg, a spokesman for the Siena Research Institute. "Particularly for Murphy, who is nine points behind heading into the final days and facing an electorate that has more Republicans than Democrats, it's incumbent on him to get his voters to the polls."
Democrats say other polls have Murphy slightly ahead, and the Siena poll to which Greenberg referred had 6 percent of voters still undecided.
But the push on the ground is on. The candidates are appearing in public wherever a crowd might be found -- from a gun show to a high school football game. Gibson's volunteers gathered Saturday morning at his campaign headquarters in Clifton Park, ready to walk door to door. Roughly 100 showed up to walk around Clifton Park and Halfmoon -- two populous suburban towns in which elected Democrats are rare -- to drop off fliers showing Gibson as a "fiscally conservative combat veteran."
While Murphy rallied with Cuomo and other elected Democrats representing Albany and Schenectady counties, outside his district, Gibson cheered on 200 volunteers outside his strip-mall office.
The area covered by the current 20th CD of NY has been traditionally Republican -- and still has a fairly sizeable Republican edge in voting enrollment. I checked the historical record and in the 145 years between 1865 and today --- the ONLY Democrats to represent the area (or most of the area given redistricting) covered by the current 20th CD of NY have been Edward W. Pattison (1975 to 1979), Kirsten Gillibrand (2007 to 2009)and Scott Murphy (2009 to present) [although the southernmost part of what is now the 20th was once represented by Maurice Hinchey until the 2001 redistricting ]
Pattison's 1974 victory over longtime GOP incumbent Carleton J. King was due in large part to the "Post-Watergate Backlash" that swept a lot of GOP incumbents out of office. Pattison certainly made no apologies for being a liberal in a relatively conservative district.
Kirsten Gillibrand was elected in 2006 -- for 2 reasons -- she ran as a conservative and the incumbent John Sweeney's campaign "self-destructed" as his personal life became headline news. When she was "elevated" to the US Senate she moved to the left.
Scott Murphy won election to the House by running as a "blue dog" or conservative. Some people would say that he has served as anything but a "blue dog" .....
which brings me to my prediction (repeated) -- the 20th will go back to the GOP because that is where it has been for 137 of the past 145 years.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Scott Tax-U-Alot Murphy must be in real trouble for Bubba to roll into town. Karl Rove's ads for Chris Gibson have Gibson moving into the lead. Maybe Murphy can run another Sunday dinner commercial? Murphy will be one of dozens of DEMS to be thrown out of office for supporting Obama.
