Opinion
EXAMINER EDITORIAL HOT ZONE: Scozzafava should withdraw
Examiner Editorial
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October 22, 2009
Faux New York Republican congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava didn’t like it Monday evening when The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack asked her about her support for Card Check. So Scozzafava’s campaign called the cops on McCormack, then falsely claimed the reporter had screamed at the candidate. The latter accusation was hastily withdrawn when McCormack played his tape recording of the encounter.
But, bad as that was, yesterday Scozzafava again went over the line, hypocritically slamming her opponents – Democrat Bill Owens and Doug Hoffman of the Conservative Party – for not taking questions in open forums: “If you don’t have the political courage to face constituents directly in open forums and answer their questions directly, then what type of courage are you going to have when you go to Washington?” We are not making this up.
Scozzafava - whose claim to be a Republican is undermined by her support of Card Check and her previous endorsement by ACORN’s far left Working Families Party - should withdraw from the special election campaign for New York’s 23rd congressional district. And donors to the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which funded Scozzafava, should demand their money back.
