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NY-26: Davis reverses his story. Apologizes for "payments".

by: NYBri

Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 15:52:10 PM EDT


From the Buffalo News: Davis apologizes for payments to wives of Independence Party leaders

Democratic congressional candidate Jack Davis apologized today for $10,000 in payments he made to the wives of Western New York's most influential Independence Party leaders that critics called "bribes."

The candidate, who has promised to spend $3 million of his own money in his third attempt at winning the seat of retiring Republican Thomas N. Reynolds, said his payments to the wives of Independence Chairment Anthony L. Orsini Jr. of Erie County and Rafael Colon of Monroe County for "consulting" services constituted a "mistake."

First they were appropriate payments, now they are "mistakes." Some in the Independence Party called them bribes.

On a Friday afternoon, no less.

NYBri :: NY-26: Davis reverses his story. Apologizes for "payments".
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Wanna Guess... (0.00 / 0)
...What IveGotJacksBack (Erick) will say? Any takers? Bet you it won't mention Jack. It'll be all Jon, even though Jon had nothing to do with this.

We've got some work ahead of us.

Surprised (0.00 / 0)
  This is a helluva development.  Maybe there's been some internal polling and Jack's attacks haven't taken root as deeply as they expected or even backfired and this is damage control on his part. A gentler, kinder Jack, so to speak.

   It surprises me that if they were gonna do this, they didn't do it immediately after it became common knowledge.  This puts the story back in the spotlight right after a clearly tough week for Powers. I can't get over my feeling that the Davis campaign not only didn't get the traction they expected last week, but even suffered some blowback for their style of old politics.

  Don't judge other people by your own limitations.


I'm thinking you may be right. (0.00 / 0)
The bribe thing also has legs, I think, because I'm hearing that the IP isn't going to let this die.

We've got some work ahead of us.

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