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This belongs to you. Take it back...
Kuhl 
Fri Nov 21, 2008 at 14:07:11 PM EST
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The NY blogosphere has been peppered with "fat lady warming up" posts for a while now. Well, folks, here you go.
Congratulations to Congressman-elect Massa on it finally becoming official, and also to Congressman Arcuri, who squeaked through again officially just a few days ago. Indeed, congratulations to the entire NYS delegation, and the people of NY, who will be well-represented by that delegation.
Election officially over, now, the new opera is set to begin: governing.
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Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 20:17:20 PM EST
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There's a bit of good news on our long, dragged-out congressional races here in Central NY/Southern Tier. Hanna has finally conceded, acknowledging that Mike Arcuri has narrowly won reelection. I'd link to the Oneida Observer-Dispatch article, but it hardly seems worth it-- it's only 1 sentence long, just says he conceded.
Still no words of concession from Randy Kuhl, though, even though he could not possibly win the seat even if he were to get every single absentee and military ballot still left to count.
Update: Sean, in comments, sends the link to a more complete Oneida Observer-Dispatch (correction to newspaper name noted) article.
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Sat Nov 15, 2008 at 17:13:47 PM EST
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The latest on the vote count in the NY-29 race breaks down like this:
Massa's lead: 5,740
Absentee ballots as yet uncounted: <6,000
Do you think Kuhl might be gracious and concede? Nah, that might be making it too easy for Eric Massa to handle his PR as he heads into the transition. That's ok, Massa and his staff can handle it. As per Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle:
Massa's news releases refer to him as "Congressman-elect Eric Massa" and he will attend orientation for freshman members of the House of Representatives next week, his campaign confirmed Friday.
On the flip, text of a message from Massa's campaign.
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Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 17:06:36 PM EST
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The Fighting 29th updates us on the progress of the Massa-Kuhl vote-counting court order, with Monroe County's ballots starting to be counted today, and other counties the 17th (Monday). If the Monroe paper ballot count is overwhelming, as it may be, we could see Kuhl's concession speech any time now. Can't wait!
Meanwhile, other interesting news tidbits about NY-29 continue to trickle in... like, the Corning Leader article announcing the overturning, on appeal, of trespassing charges against 5 anti-war activists for sitting in at Randy Kuhl's office when he would not see them or accept their petition.
The group was among some 20 people who went to Kuhl's Buell Street office Aug. 6, 2007 to deliver a petition with 3,000 signatures asking Kuhl to vote against more funding for the Iraq war.
When the five protesters refused to leave the office at closing time and were were each charged with third-degree criminal trespass. They were all found guilty after a two-day jury trial the following September....
Attorney Ray Schlather, the legal advisor for the protesters, said the push by the county District Attoney's office to make the offense "a fingerprintable crime" showed a lack of judgment and allowed the protesters to turn the charges into political theater.
"This should never gone before a jury," Schlather said. "That lack of good judgment effectively played into the protesters' hands."
...And some excellent political theater it was that my neighbors executed, too. I guess that was the beginning of Randy feeling he had to pack heat to protect himself from his constituents.... good to see justice done.
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