Tedisco goes Kerouac
Shortly before the polls closed Tuesday night, Congressional candidate James Tedisco was reflecting on the eight-week long campaign and asked about all the money spent – which may climb into the $7 million range for both candidates — as well as what has resulted in a flurry of negative ads.
“They’ve been very effective at distorting our record. There’s been a lot of contrast ads – you can call them negative – but we like to call them contrast ads, and we try to get as much positive through there,” Tedisco said.
“When they’re spending millions of dollars to hit you with negative you kind of got to respond in a contrast way to them. ”
I asked him whether he felt as though he was campaigning not only against Scott Murphy, but against President Obama’s popularity — who Murphy has consistently supported – in this particular race.
“They’ve thrown everything at me. You’ve got The President, you’ve got Mr. Biden, you’ve got Kirsten Gillibrand, you’ve got Schumer, you’ve got Tonko,” Tedisco said, venturing dangerously close to a Howard Dean-like screed, before pulling back.
To clarify his point (I think), Tedisco offered up a stream of words that was pure post-beat surrealism.
“I was walking in to ring a door bell today and the kitchen sink fell out of a tree,” he said.
I’m still not sure what to make out of that one.
– Thomas Dimopoulos
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Funny. Murphy is the real loser in all this. He had more resources and walked less.
He lost.
hey, you’re linked on Politico-http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/ “Remains of the Day”… I appear to have missed a lot of political intrigue in Albany and the 20th district since I headed to Washington and Italy – although Eliot’s favorite hotel is right down the street from the dc campus.
I may be a bit premature, but I’d like to thank the voters of NY-20 for sending the message to the Administration that quadrupling the deficit is not acceptable and that Presidents of any party firing private sector employees is un-American. Thank you for beginning the process of reclaiming our freedom and liberty. God Bless you all
Hey Tom, glad you could get that quote in. This may be the best post of the campaign.
The firewood in my box was Three to one Tedisco,As a republican I found them nothing short of disgusting!There is no place in politics for these sort of party mongers!The most appalling was Mr. Tedisco’s distortion of Murphy’s stance on womens’ rights,to a baby killer!He must have had too much money to blow,I got two of those in one week!I would say most of what I saw was from the republican side,with Mr.Tedisco stating he could not stop them. Well, I don’t buy into that.