And the downstate backlash begins. 
http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/LI_Democrat_fumes_over_Senate_choice_20090123
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“One way or another we’re not going to be having an NRA member representing New York state.”
the NERVE of that piece of shit… She’s supposed to represent US (or her constituents), not her own personal agenda/vendetta
seeing statements like that, it’s no wonder why NY is as fucked up as it is.
It’s been that since the beginning. :meh:
7. ANDREW JACKSON 1829-1837
More nearly than any of his predecessors, Andrew Jackson was elected by popular vote; as President he sought to act as the direct representative of the common man.
Born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767, he received sporadic education. But in his late teens he read law for about two years, and he became an outstanding young lawyer in Tennessee. Fiercely jealous of his honor, he engaged in brawls, and in a duel killed a man who cast an unjustified slur on his wife Rachel.
Jackson prospered sufficiently to buy slaves and to build a mansion, the Hermitage, near Nashville. He was the first man elected from Tennessee to the House of Representatives, and he served briefly in the Senate. A major general in the War of 1812, Jackson became a national hero when he defeated the British at New Orleans.
In 1824 some state political factions rallied around Jackson; by 1828 enough had joined “Old Hickory” to win numerous state elections and control of the Federal administration in Washington.
In his first Annual Message to Congress, Jackson recommended eliminating the Electoral College. He also tried to democratize Federal officeholding. Already state machines were being built on patronage, and a New York Senator openly proclaimed "that to the victors belong the spoils. . . . "
Jackson took a milder view. Decrying officeholders who seemed to enjoy life tenure, he believed Government duties could be “so plain and simple” that offices should rotate among deserving applicants.
As national politics polarized around Jackson and his opposition, two parties grew out of the old Republican Party–the Democratic Republicans, or Democrats, adhering to Jackson; and the National Republicans, or Whigs, opposing him.
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and other Whig leaders proclaimed themselves defenders of popular liberties against the usurpation of Jackson. Hostile cartoonists portrayed him as King Andrew I.
Behind their accusations lay the fact that Jackson, unlike previous Presidents, did not defer to Congress in policy-making but used his power of the veto and his party leadership to assume command.
The greatest party battle centered around the Second Bank of the United States, a private corporation but virtually a Government-sponsored monopoly. When Jackson appeared hostile toward it, the Bank threw its power against him.
Clay and Webster, who had acted as attorneys for the Bank, led the fight for its recharter in Congress. “The bank,” Jackson told Martin Van Buren, “is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!” Jackson, in vetoing the recharter bill, charged the Bank with undue economic privilege.
His views won approval from the American electorate; in 1832 he polled more than 56 percent of the popular vote and almost five times as many electoral votes as Clay.
Jackson met head-on the challenge of John C. Calhoun, leader of forces trying to rid themselves of a high protective tariff.
When South Carolina undertook to nullify the tariff, Jackson ordered armed forces to Charleston and privately threatened to hang Calhoun. Violence seemed imminent until Clay negotiated a compromise: tariffs were lowered and South Carolina dropped nullification.
In January of 1832, while the President was dining with friends at the White House, someone whispered to him that the Senate had rejected the nomination of Martin Van Buren as Minister to England. Jackson jumped to his feet and exclaimed, “By the Eternal! I’ll smash them!” So he did. His favorite, Van Buren, became Vice President, and succeeded to the Presidency when “Old Hickory” retired to the Hermitage, where he died in June 1845.
I doubt she recognizes anything west of Albany.
But much better than some of the other options.
The fact that Mcarthy hates her, makes me love her any more. That stupid LI bitch has ridden the fame from her familys tragedy for far too long. She has an agenda, and patterson just fucked it.
Its funny how downstate just hates with everything in their being the values of the upstaters.
She’s a better choice, but not by much, I’m glad she’s not from NYC or L.Island.
Curious who you wanted him to pick.
And remember, Higgins wasn’t going to happen.
:tup:. Its good to see someone other than the typical democrat in office. Being backed by the NRA is a major plus as well.
i’ll give her 2 tickets to the gun show.
On a SILF scale she’s a huge improvement over Hillary.
senator I’d like to fuck? roffle
ROFL! I bet she is human, and not of the nasferatu species like Hitlary wooot lmfao.
Not to turn this into another gun controle debate, but I will necver understand how people in cities like NYC that have VERY high crime rates and have already outlawed firearms can support that shit when it is proven that it only makes their situation worse.
more guns for the criminals to steal? I dunno. But NYC’s crime rate is nothing like it used to be.
Thank you Rudy Giuliani. They still cry about how he turned NYC into a police state, but he’s the one that cleaned that city up.
To be perfectly honest I never had a person particularly in mind for the position. I simply did not want Kennedy, or someone from downstate.
So being that she is from upstate is a plus. While Im against McCarthy’s view on weapons I’m not happy about the NRA endorsement either.
Honestly it would have been nice to have a western NY’er considering we are the second largest section of he state. But I will give her a chance. If I don’t like her I can vote to get rid of her in 2 years its the glory of our system.
I really like this move