Current Chamberlain Jim Laboda will take the combined job.
Dede Scozzafava says she’d do pretty well on a proposed “purity test” for future Republican candidates.
Scozzafava, the Republican Assemblywoman who dropped out of the race for Congress days before the election and endorsed Democrat Bill Owens, appeared on CBS’s Face The Nation (video below) Sunday to debate the idea.
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.
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.
Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava faced the music Monday for her decision to endorse a Democrat in the race for Congress after Republicans all but abandoned her candidacy.
Scozzafava was removed as Leader Pro Tempore of the Assembly’s Republican conference. Minority leader Brian Kolb said in a statement that Scozzafava stepped down voluntarily.
Hoffman, the Conservative Party’s candidate, called for an investigation of Republican Dede Scozzafava’s decision to quit running and, a day later, endorse Democrat Bill Owens. Owens continued to praise Scozzafava for her decision to back him.
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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