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...this happen? After McHugh - a moderate, environmentally friendly Republican who was re-elected to the seat eight times - accepted Obama's nomination, local Democratic and Republican leaders chose their respective candidates. Bill Owens, an attorney with left-of-center views, was the choice of the Democrats, while Dierdre (Dede) Scozzafava, a moderate state assemblywoman from the district, was the pick of the local GOP. Doug Hoffman, an accountant living over the district line in Lake Placid, then declared his own candidacy with the backing of the state's Conservative Party leaders, who had opted not to endorse Scozzafava. Now Scozzafava...
...money flowing to Hoffman's campaign from conservative interest groups has been used to paint Scozzafava as a leftist. True, Scozzafava supports abortion rights, gay marriage and the pro-union legislation known as Card Check. But she is endorsed by the National Rifle Association, she supported the Bush tax cuts, and she opposes much of Obama's health care plan. "Whether you agree with Scozzafava or not or whether you like her politics or not, there's this real cognitive dissonance between the woman that we know and this bizarre caricature of her that's being described out there," says...
...putting down one seminar that I want and three that I don't want, and I'm hoping for the best," Rosemary E. Scozzafava '98 said. "Unfortunately the one I want is the one that everyone else wants as well...
...members include Husani K. Barnwell '98, David L. Boggs '98, Michael S. Campbell '98, Melanie Q. Kansil '97, Karen Lau '98, Thomas F. Moore '98, Kimble Poon '99, Rosemary E. Scozzafava '98 and Amit Tiwari...