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GOP tries to make Pelosi key issue in House race
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason May 18, 2011 06:23am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Buffalo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON -- Not long after praising Nancy Pelosi on national television, Kathleen C. Hochul traveled to New York City on Friday for an unpublicized fundraiser attended by the controversial and unpopular former House speaker.
Republicans quickly took notice. Three days later, the party issued an ad attacking Hochul, the Democratic candidate in the race for the 26th Congressional District seat, and Jack Davis, who is running as the Tea Party candidate, saying that if elected to Congress, either would be a marionette -- with Pelosi pulling the strings.
That raises two questions:
* How independent would Hochul be from the woman who, to many Republicans, personifies the big government and big spending of the early years of President Obama's administration?
* How much sense does it make for Hochul to cozy up to Pelosi, who's viewed positively by only 25 percent of those polled recently in the district?
Days before Tuesday's special election, which pits Hochul, the Erie County clerk, against Davis and Assemblywoman Jane L. Corwin, a Clarence Republican, Republicans maintain that Hochul's ties to Pelosi are more proof that Hochul remains the tax-and-spend Democrat she has been since joining the Hamburg Town Board in the early 1990s. |
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