Campaigns, Elections and A Good Old-Fashioned Rant

Hey everyone. So I realize this is my first post in awhile. It's been a crazy couple of months. But now, with elections over and the year drawing to a close, I'll be keeping up to date with the Fabulous States.

I've spent the last few months working on a New York City Council Campaign and I am proud to say that my candidate, Dan Halloran, is now one of 5 Republican City Councilmen! Here are some pictures from the campaign...

Here are some of our St. John's College Republicans with our man Dan Halloran!

Here we are again with NYS Senator Frank Padavan

In a surprise endorsement, Former Governor George Pataki came out to support us!

I even got to meet, now 3rd term, Mayor Mike Bloomberg!

Of course, just because we were campaigning doesn't mean we didn't have some fun. Here we are partying it up with the Log Cabin Republicans at a Mayoral event!

All in all, it was a great campaign season. We saw the historical election of Mike Bloomberg to his 3rd term as Mayor of New York City. We saw two Republican governors elected: Chris Christie in New Jersey and Bob McDonnell in Virginia. My candidate Dan Halloran of the 19th CD, the Republican-Conservative-Libertarian-Independence candidate, won over the Democratic candidate in one of the most closely watched City Council elections. All in all, we did pretty good this year and we plan to do even better in the midterm elections next year.

I would like to briefly comment on one of the strangest elections this year. The 23rd Congressional District. For those of you who may not know, the 23rd district is located near the Canadian Border in the most Northern part of New York. In this race, which was being run due to an appointment of the former congressman to the position of Secretary of the Army, we had a moderate Republican State Assemblywoman, Dede Scozzafava, who had been nominated by the County Executives of the district, running against a conservative Democrat. Now, it's important to note that this district has not gone Democrat in over 100 years, and the plan was not to go Dem this time. However, that's before our country's idiot got wind of this and stepped in for yet another moment of shame in the spotlight. Sarah Palin and cohorts were outraged that a moderate Republican who had been nominated across the board by those representing the district locally, and who believes in the equal rights of LGBTQ citizens and the rights of women to have an abortion, would more than likely be the districts next Congresswoman. So what did they do? They nominated and campaigned for a Conservative candidate who, get this, doesn't even live in the district named, Doug Hoffman. Hoffman backed by Palin, Glen Beck and Tim Pawlenty, just to name a few (Do they even know where Watertown, NY is?) ran such a heated campaign in which he trashed Scozzafava, that he actually managed to push Scozzafava into dropping out of the race 3 days before the election. WHAT?! Let me sum that up for you. This dude from out of district and his conservative [insert offensive, yet appropriate title] cohorts, pushed the candidate who should have won, and was most deserving of the office out of the race, just before the election. So what did the White House do? The White House turned around and got Scozzafava to endorse the Democrat, Bill Owens, which she gladly did. (I wonder why?) And then sent Vice President, Joe Biden, to the district to campaign for the weekend. The 23rd Congressional District now has a new DEMOCRATIC Congressman.

So what have we learned from this race? I'll tell you what I would hope everyone has learned. These Ultra-Right Wing Conservatives have no place in the Republican party. And let this be a message to you Ms. Palin, while you know nothing of politics from your partial term as Governor of Alaska, you have no right to nominate a candidate in an election you know nothing about and push the most deserving candidate out of the race. You and your misguided and ignorant beliefs of right and wrong, good and evil do not stand for the entire country and they do not stand for the Republican Party. The reign of Ultra-Conservatives like you, Beck and Pawlenty is over and your days are numbered. While I do not think that there is anything inherently wrong with Conservatives, I have a real problem with people like you, Ms. Palin, who think that you have the only right ideals and that those who differ from you are wrong. The Republican party is headed in a new and more inclusive direction, in which we do not embrace those who would push out a candidate because their ideals differ from yours. You can point all the fingers you want for the loss of this district to a Democrat, but the only people at fault are you and your cohorts that stand against everything you don't believe in. Soon, you will find that you are the only ones standing there and then maybe you will realize that there is much more to the Republican Party than you and your delusional political stance.

Congratulations to all of the candidates in this years election! Lets make next year even better!