Campaigning in this Queens and Brooklyn district, which will elect a new representative just two days after the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, has paused to mark the occasion, quieting the contentious battle between Democrat David Weprin and Republican Bob Turner. Neither campaign has official events, and political ads have been taken down for the day. There is no door knocking or phone banking despite the fact that the election is now less than 48 hours away.
GLENDALE, N.Y. -- Just two days before a contentious special election in New York's 9th District, the political attacks have fallen silent -- for the most part.
Campaigning in this Queens and Brooklyn district, which will elect a new representative just two days after the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, has paused to mark the occasion, quieting the contentious battle between Democrat David Weprin and Republican Bob Turner. Neither campaign has official events, and political ads have been taken down for the day. There is no door knocking or phone banking despite the fact that the election is now less than 48 hours away.
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Democrats are facing the very real possibility that a pair of special elections on Tuesday will shake the foundations of the 2012 political landscape. The party is at serious risk of losing a House race in New York City that few thought would be close, and campaign officials are already close to writing off a Nevada House race they had once hoped to contest. By Josh Kraushaar and Jessica Taylor
Sniffing an upset in Anthony Weiner's old district, the National Republican Congressional Committee is preparing to spend significant money to counter a Democratic advertising wave. According to several sources familiar with the group's intentions, the NRCC has been inquiring about buying advertising time on costly New York City broadcast television from now until the special election on Sept. 13. HOWARD BEACH, N.Y. - Republican Bob Turner rallied about 100 volunteers at his campaign headquarters this morning along Crossbay Boulevard, telling those gathered that their message and field organization could combat the spending barrage of the Democrats.
"I don't think they've been paying attention and knowing what you guys have been doing. We got this far with our volunteers from independents, Democrats and Republicans who know things aren't right and the people can fix it," Turner told the crowd outside his office. "We'll get 'em out in numbers that are gonna knock their socks off, and we're gonna win." KEW GARDENS, N.Y. -- Democrat David Weprin got a little help from his female friends this afternoon ahead of Tuesday's close special election in New York's 9th District.
With Weprin off the campaign trail on Saturday observing the Jewish Sabbath, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., former Rep. Liz Holtzman, D-N.Y., and several other local and state female elected officials stumped on his behalf, saying Republican Bob Turner would endanger abortion rights and education issues for women. NEW YORK--Sensing an upset in the special election to succeed disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., national Republicans have been quietly boosting GOP nominee Bob Turner, both with late infusions of cash and boots on the ground this weekend.
The National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee has sent Turner's campaign an additional $20,000 in coordinated funds on the eve of Tuesday's vote, helping add to the former cable TV executive's coffers as he's being vastly outspent by Democrat David Weprin and his Democratic allies. Republican Bob Turner holds a six-point lead in next week's special election to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., according to a new Siena College poll released early Friday that shows voters in the overwhelmingly Democratic district are poised to deliver a stinging rebuke to President Obama and his party. Republican Bob Turner has made the race to succeed disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., a real barnburner.
But like the man he hopes to follow, Turner is no stranger to sex scandals either - albeit, as a spectator. Democrats are showing the clearest sign yet of concern ahead of next Tuesday's special election in New York's 9th District - the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is going up on air with an expensive television buys in the campaign's closing days. According to buy information obtained by Hotline On Call, the DCCC has made a $483,500 TV ad buy in the district, starting tomorrow through Monday. The broadcast TV buy will not air on September 11, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now you see it, now you don't.
Hours after dropping a nearly half-million dollar TV buy late into the increasingly competitive special election in New York's 9th District, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has edited their new advertisement, removing the image of a plane flying dangerously close to the Manhattan skyline just days before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. |
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