Massa Is In

side note: (0.00 / 0)

Massa also has something to say about this story I diaried earlier today.

(from RT again...)

Eric Massa's Statement on the Mast Family's Situation

Unlike Mr. Kuhl who has yet to comment, Eric Massa immediatly responded to my request for a comment on the terrible situation the Mast Family of Corning is now facing…

  I had received a note from a friend that sent me immediately to the site to read the posting about this deployment. Tragically, this is the real human, local, cost of voting for this surge. Our military is tapped out and anyone who does not believe that can please find some other explanation for sending a new mother whose husband is already in combat into Iraq. This war is now cutting through the very bone of the US military in a way that those of us who spent years in the military know all to well. It is ironic that constituents are forced to try and find help from the very Washington politicians who are voting to send these young people into an escalation of the war. When John Kuhl stood up and stated he was against the "stop loss" program that extends soldiers in combat zones and then stated the very next week that he was against politicians micro managing the war his self contradictions were clear to anyone who was listening. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer are listening because they have grown tired of the same old Rubber stamp for George Bush votes in Congress.

  Yesterday, we saw yet another rubber stamp get slapped on the Congressional record with John Kuhl voting against working families with his flip-flopping rubber stamp of George Bushs' threatened veto of the Employee Free Choice Bill. Add that to the almost criminal closing of the in-patient mental heath VA facility and the string of votes against this District starts to look pretty clear.

  Our military is over committed to a strategy that has even Senators like John McCain "mistakenly" using vocabulary words like "wasted". When this President and his rubber stamps in Congress realize that they have committed huge blunders with this surge. Perhaps John Kuhl should go to Iraq again, this time staying of the same tour of duty as the young soldier who has to leave a new born baby with a parent. How about it, 16 months instead of 16 hours?

  Eric Massa

TODAY is day one. It always is.

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by: phillip anderson @ Fri Mar 02, 2007 at 21:54:24 PM UTC

p.s. (4.00 / 1)

i just posted this at dKos as well.

TODAY is day one. It always is.

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by: phillip anderson @ Fri Mar 02, 2007 at 23:18:28 PM UTC

thank you. (0.00 / 0)

Massa is a great candidate and a worth challenger to bring down Kuhl.

To be honest when I looked at the polls I thought that this was an absolute pickup, but next time I will not be taking that position again.

-- MrMacMan

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by: MrMacMan @ Sat Mar 03, 2007 at 07:35:27 AM UTC

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Great! (0.00 / 0)

Now I know what I will be doing in my spare time the next two years: volunteering for Gillibrand, Massa and hopefully Clark.

What a long, strange trip it's been.

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by: LuLu @ Sat Mar 03, 2007 at 11:55:54 AM UTC

"Kuhl loses his cool" (0.00 / 0)

Check out this post at Rochester Turning-- very interesting analysis of how a "constituent input meeting" goes with a guy who has only 2 strong suits (I stand corrected-- I previously suggested he had only one strong suit "He's tall," but, a more charitable commenter noted that he does, actually, also have nice hair).  But, this behavior ought to help voters see through to the real Randy.

Cheer up, Massa supporters!  Them ol'bedrock Republicans in the 29th are kicking the bucket at a steady clip, and, as long as Bush keeps Kuhl voting to please the Wyoming wingnuts, the middling voter should have an easy time making the intelligent choice.

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by: robinia @ Sat Mar 03, 2007 at 20:19:09 PM UTC