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Miracle Comeback: Ann Marie Buerkle Now Has Slim Lead in NY-25

Oh, my goodness. This was a Republican candidate I covered during my road trip with Da Tech Guy, but I’d written off this district as lost last night. Incumbent Democrat Rep. Dan Maffei had already declared victory. But today Left Coast Rebel proclaimed the good news: Ann Marie Buerkle has come back to a 659-vote lead, thanks to late returns […]

Ann Marie Buerkle Answers Dishonest Attack Ads From Democrat Dan Maffei

Reporting the latest NY-25 news at The American Spectator: Republican congressional candidate Ann Marie Buerkle today rebutted attack ads from Democrat incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei that accused Buerkle of being delinquent on property taxes. “I’ve spent the past several weeks suffering from the negative ads of my opponent,” Buerkle said at a press conference in […]

‘Scared,’ Mr. President?

“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country is scared.” — President Barack Obama DeWITT, N.Y. — So Obama’s […]

‘A Road Man for the Lords of Karma’

DeWITT, N.Y. — I’m blogging tonight from the home of The Lonely Conservative and her lucky husband, Dave. We just left a meet-and-greet with Ann Marie Buerkle in the village of Clyde. While I had planned to be on the road to Pennsylvania already, but Buerkle’s having a Monday morning press conference near Syracuse, and I […]

NY-25 Prediction: Ann Marie Buerkle Will Score Landslide Victory Over Dan Maffei

HANCOCK, N.Y. — Pete Da Tech Guy and I were driving up Highway 17 toward Binghamton when we got the call from the Lonely Conservative, informing us that Ann Marie Buerkle’s victory is now a near-certainty. However, that’s not the headline in the Syracuse Post Standard: Dan Maffei leads Anne Marie Buerkle by 12 points in new poll Why is […]

At Bielat HQ, Ready for the Road Trip

NEWTON, Mass. — Here at Sean Bielat campaign headquarters on a Saturday afternoon, Ace of Spades and several of his readers are running the phone banks: “Hey, my name’s Ace. Would you like Sean Bielat to build you a robot?” The big news today is that Sean Bielat is the top fundraiser in Massachusetts: In […]

Do Interns Fret Around You, Billy? Of Course Conservatives Want A Restrained Federal Government

by Smitty Clinton, lurking about and supporting Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY25), accidentally sneaks up on the obvious. Clinton said the tea partiers and the Republicans want to break the power of the federal government. Also, humidors are stocked with things that, sometimes, are just cigars. Be sure to check out Dan Maffei’s GOP challenger Ann Marie […]

NY-25: Ann Marie Buerkle

Several friends have been urging me to support the Republican challenger in New York’s 25th District. She’s awesome: The 25th District around Syracuse has sent Republicans to Congress since the 1970s. In 2008, eight-term Republican Rep. Jim Walsh retired and, in that year’s Obama-led surge, Democrat Dan Maffei got elected. Now the latest poll shows the […]

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