This TPM story says when Republican Congressman Chris Collins is replaced as a nominee by the New York Republican Party, the Democrats will try to prevent that. Collins said on August 11 that he will not run for re-election, even though he had won the June 2018 primary.
Given that there is a conservative Reform Party candidate ballot qualified, Larry Piegza, and that district has grown more and more republican over the past 3 elections, I don’t see how the democrat can win even if there is no republican left on the ballot. The Republican Party would just then endorse Piegza and he would win.
Really? Is the district THAT solidly GOP?
I’m kind of rooting for the donkeys on this one.
Nov 2016
220,885 67.18 pct fusion total Collins [R part 175,509 — 53.38 pct]
107,832 32.79 pct Dem
92 0.03 pct Other
328,809 100.00 pct Total
ONE of THE most right wing USA Rep gerrymander districts in USA.
FEC, Fed Elections, 2016, p.150
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Thanks for the breakdown, Demo Rep!
Well, that’s what we have come to in this country: limiting the voters’ choices before the election even happens.
Here’s what I think of gerrymandering:
The Solution
by Bertolt Brecht
After the uprising of the 17th June [1953]
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
CF —
what happened in 1989-1991 in eastern Europe including the Stalinallee ???
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Go Larry!! Win one for us third party supporters and get into congress!