State Assemblyman Will Barclay (R-Pulaski) said today he is forming a committee to explore the idea of running for Congress this year.
Barclay has formed an exploratory committee, which allows him to raise money for a possible run.
Doug Hoffman conceded defeat on Tuesday but predicted he won’t lose in 2010.
You heard that right: The Conservative Party candidate for Congress this year will run again next year. “I promise to help restore our nation’s faith in elected officials when we win,” he said in a letter posted on his website.
Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, barely won the fight for absentee votes in Oswego County. He beat Owens among absentees, 544 to 534. Dede Scozzafava, the Republican who dropped out of the race on the weekend before the election and, a day later, endorsed Owens, pulled 204 absentees.
Freshman Congressman Bill Owens will have a seat at the table that decides major issues such as military policy and national security. Meantime, the opponent who conceded defeat on election night now takes it all back, alleges ACORN tried to steal the election, and wants supporters to send him money for the fight.
Absentee ballot totals were announced Tuesday in four of the eleven counties that make up the 23rd Congressional Disrrict.
The result: Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman narrowed the gap with Democrat Doug Owens by just 214 votes as the results from Oneida, Madison, Hamilton and Fulton counties came in.
Doug Hoffman takes it back.
With the margin of votes between him and Democratic candidate for Congress Bill Owens shrinking, he told conservative radio and TV talk host Glenn Beck Monday that “if I knew this information at the election night, I would not have conceded.”
Did Doug Hoffman give up too soon?
At least one of his campaign staffers thinks that might be true, after revised numbers show the race for Congress is closer than it appeared to be on Election Night.
So, the question: Can Hoffman still win after all the absentee ballots are counted?
Bill Owens’ election last week made a difference by the weekend.
A package of reforms aimed at improving health care coverage for Americans passed the House of Representatives by just 5 votes, 220-215. Owens cast one of those votes to approve the legislation.
With about 80% of votes counted, Owens held about a 4,000 vote lead. There are as many as 11,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted and a handful of voting locations across the district had their voting machines sealed for hand counts beginning today.
Doug Hoffman and Bill Owens race to the finish line accompanied by political and entertainment celebrities, in a contest that has become as much about the future of the Republican party as it is about our local representative to Congress.
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