Hoffman moving into 23rd district
The Watertown Daily Times has an interview up on their website today of Republican/Conservative Congressional candidate Doug Hoffman.
Among other things, he says he's moving his primary residence from Lake Placid to Saranac Lake, presumably so he can live in the district he wants to represent:
Q: Do have any intention of making a permanent residence inside the 23rd?
A: Yes, I do. I have a purchase contract that I just closed on last week. We're working on the financing and we hope to close on that property next month. It's in Saranac Lake, my hometown where I grew up. And I'll be moving back home.
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posted by David Sommerstein @ 3/10/2010 03:54:00 PM
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11 Comments:
I am SOOOOOOOOO incredibly sick of hearing of Doug Hoffman, good, bad or indifferent. It's bad enough we'll be bombarded by comments, pro- and anti-, by outsiders come the fall. Do we really have to start it this darn early?
How Clintonesque of Hoffman.
I'll believe it when I see it. "Securing financing" has a funny way of not happening when you are only trying to make it look like you want to buy something.
So I read the interview and it appears that Hoffman is opposed to defense cuts and is opposed to Medicare cuts. That means any significant government cuts would have to come from social security. Sorry, but I just can't take Hoffman (or any conservative, save Rep. Ryan) seriously when he says he wants to cut government.
Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!
Welcome back, homie!
Stay in Lake Placid and out of politics. We don't need or want you. Give us a good Republican choice!
It is one thing to change residence. Too bad Doug can't go back in time and change his decision to run last year - after pledging he would not run if he was not selected to be the Republican candidate. He is a candidate with no experience who has already lost his credibility.
Where his " primary" residence is will have no effect on the outcome of the next election. It did not stop anybody for voting for him or for the R or D last November.
The Dede voters were making a statement too in that last election. They are not Independents, and they will not vote for Hoffman. Period.
He is no longer "the soup de jour, " the " wind of change," that ship has sailed.
It takes tremendous hubris for Hoffman to call himself a conservative when he got his start and big pay checks off the backs of the tax payers when he was the driving force behind the debt, and cost over runs ,left over from the 1980 Winter Olympics. Government bailouts looked real good to him then. He has even claimed to be "proud" of his work then.
Only in America could a guy with a track record like that show up years later and claim to care, or have a clue, about debt and spending more than you have.
Too funny, if it were not true..Ah! but it is. You could look it up..
Is this guy for real? when asked about the Don't as don't tell debate he said :
"I think the military should be telling us what they want done with that. At this point, I haven't heard anything other than a politician wanting it to be changed," Hoffman said. "I think it should stay as is
Ah doug, did you listen to the congressional hearing when it was brought up by the Military that it was time to do away with that policy?
This guy is a clown. If this is the best the Republicans can come up with, then that is really sad..
Doug seems to be a low information politician attractive to low information voters.
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