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...Many Obstacles Face Negron in Fla. 16, Especially Foley?s Name. It it will be Foley?s name, not replacement candidate Joe Negron?s, that residents of the south-central Florida district will see when they cast their votes. And it is possible, if not likely, that many will be uncomfortable punching Foley?s name, given the circumstances surrounding his hasty departure from the race and his House seat...
...Making things worse for Negron is the fact that Mahoney, 50, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., is the kind of conservative Democrat whom many Republicans in the G.O.P.-leaning 16th District, which includes Palm Beach and the state's eastern Treasure Coast, can stomach more comfortably in the voting booth. Mahoney, in fact, was himself a Republican until he decided to challenge Foley last year. Born in New Jersey and raised an Irish Catholic Democrat, he became a Reagan Republican in the 1980s; his platform is heavy on economic-related issues like the growing financial struggles of small businesses...
...Negron's campaign, meanwhile, will have to spend less time going after Mahoney and considerably more effort educating the district's voters about the strange electoral situation ahead. Palm Beach County G.O.P. Chairman Sid Dinerstein says the party is gearing up a major campaign of direct mail and polling place signs, and he believes he can still count on the party's base. "As a party we're still motivated," Dinerstein insists, but admitted that the "anti-Foley backlash" will be a large obstacle. Negron says his most important task will be to remind G.O.P. voters "to vote Republican...
...result, both Negron and Mahoney say they hope to run as normal a race as possible - which, these days, may well mean the same mudslinging and attack ads that will characterize most other House contests. Mahoney had already taken Foley to court for defamation over an ad that accused Mahoney of questionable business practices; and Mahoney had countered by calling on Foley to "disclose how he became a millionaire as an elected official." Negron this week pounced on last weekend's visits from star Dems to insist Mahoney is just a liberal in disguise. "The voters of District...
...Foley's resignation will greatly increase the Democrats' chances of winning one of the 15 seats they need to take back the House, since Foley's name will remain on the ballot, even though the G.O.P. has named a new candidate, Joe Negron. But the Foley scandal could have much wider ramifications, raising the question of whether Congress as an institution is the problem. The top GOP congressional leaders had been informed of at least some of Foley's e-mails, but didn't directly ask Foley about them. Republican Rodney Alexander of Louisiana, under whom one of the pages...