Hoffman un-un-unconcedes the NY-23 special election.
Hoffman un-un-unconcedes the NY-23 special election.
On Monday, ThinkProgress reported that failed Conservative Party candidate had rescinded his concession to Democrat Bill Owens in the NY-23 special congressional election. The next day, however, Hoffman’s spokesman said he was un-conceding the race, adding that they weren’t planning on challenging the results. Now, alleging widespread voter fraud at the hands of ACORN and labor unions, Hoffman is again taking back his concession. From a statement posted on his website last night:
As evidence surfaces, we find out that reported results from election night were far from accurate. ACORN and the unions did their best to try and sway the results to Obamacare supporter Bill Owens. [...]
Rest assured, they will not succeed, and I am therefore revoking my statement of concession.
But as Politico’s Josh Kraushaar notes, “Hoffman currently faces next-to-no chance of pulling ahead,” as he would “need to win nearly 80 percent of the outstanding absentee ballots to win.” The Jefferson County Republican elections commissioner said that Hoffman’s allegations were “absolutely false.”
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LOL! Could this guy be anymore of a baffoon? That’s what you get for listening to an airhead like Beck, Hoffman. Public Humiliation.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:38 amThat little man is simply ridiculous.
I think he should reconsider his choice of a career in politics and apply for a job as Glenn Beck’s valet instead.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:39 amDoug Hoffman: A walking, talking, dental hygiene deficient symbol of the modern Republican party.
He also claimed that, on election night, ACORN was responsible for a campaign volunteer’s slashed tires. Plattsburgh police stated definitively that the tire damage was due to said volunteer driving over a broken bottle.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:42 amand his source regarding this voter fraud is???????
or is this just typical repub tactics of throw sh*t and see what sticks and how long it will hang there
November 19th, 2009 at 10:43 amAlso, I don’t remember the left ever propping up a boogeyman to blame for its electoral problems.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:44 amAhhh, learning from the Norm Coleman school of graceful acceptance of the facts….
November 19th, 2009 at 10:44 amConservatives, battling against democracy when and where-ever they can.
Bruce
November 19th, 2009 at 10:44 amAs bug`s would say What a Maroon.
shaking my head this guy needs some one to prop him up as he is like jelly, So now that he has un-conceded will beckerhead understand and still keep him under his mentor ship?
cause if hes the VP candidate they will need cabinet members, thinking they make rushbuttboil SOS,
November 19th, 2009 at 10:45 amThis guy is a Moron.
I didn’t know that ACORN had even a small presence in upstate NY? Heck, last I knew the only ACORN office in NY was in NYC?
I wonder when he will blame it on the martians next?
November 19th, 2009 at 10:46 amsore losers, cowards, ignorant racists, and thieves
today’s GOP
November 19th, 2009 at 10:47 amYou want syrup with your waffles?
At this point he doesn’t appear that he could be a solid rep. Always wanting to change cast votes, very non-productive.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:48 amHoffman un-un-unconcedes the NY-23 special election.
– - It doesn’t help Hoffman that he looks a lot like just another flustered solution seeker, settling on the next thought that wafts through his head.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:49 amThere isn’t an ACORN office in NY23! This is unreal. Blaming the Boogie-man AND the unions is a Dumb move. A lot of Small towns in these areas RELY on unions. That is why Dede was picked in the first place. Her pro-union stance plus her record with the NRA made her the right candidate. So, the lesson Repugs learned from this debacle? NONE!
November 19th, 2009 at 10:49 amRantingTommy says:
sore losers, cowards, ignorant racists, and thieves
today’s GOP
Smiles put that to the tune of Cher’s gypsy, tramps and thieves and you might have a number one with a bullit on your hands.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:49 amPilot@14, I’m singing it already…
November 19th, 2009 at 10:52 amACORN???
ACORN affected the vote in rural NY-23? Musta been that massive voter registration drive among minorities in Pottsdam. Or maybe Oswego. Maybe Ticonderoga’s massive minority population swung the vote?
I guess Hoffman can be forgiven for not really knowing the district very well. After all, it’s not like he lives there.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:53 amThe mighty Doug Hoffman went out one fine November
November 19th, 2009 at 10:53 amSeeking his fame and fortune as a Congress member
But lo this mighty man was struck down and his hopes shorn
All by the power of a tiny, innocent acorn
Maybe that’s why he ran on the Conservative Party ticket rather than as a Republican. Everyone knows Republicans don’t look to government for solutions — only for enrichment.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:55 amSome people hear “going rogue” and think of the Energizer Bunny. I hear “going rogue” and think of the enlarged prostrate medication commercials.
“Going and Going and Going Rogue: The Gang That Can’t Piss Straight”
November 19th, 2009 at 10:57 amThere… that IS what you meant in the first place, isn’t it?
November 19th, 2009 at 10:58 amRepub twisted logic: “Just because I didn’t get enough votes to win this election, does not mean that I lost”.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:00 amOr perhaps the damage was done by driving over poor Doug’s shattered hopes and dreams, along w/ his self-esteem…
November 19th, 2009 at 11:00 amAre ALL the ‘Conservatives’ this stupid now? Is Sarah the ‘Brightest’ they have? It’s like we are living in Bizarro World! When Nora O’donnell interviewed the idiots waiting in line and asked them about Sarah’s record, they were hopelessly uninformed! When Nora pointed out the inaccuracies, these idiots DEFENDED Sarah. WTF? One woman said she admired Sarah because she was ‘Real’….. Real? WTF does that mean? Christ.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:01 amOh yeah…those Repubes sure are deciders…just what we need running things again…
/snark
November 19th, 2009 at 11:05 amIt really doesn’t help his cause very much that ummm… The other guy’s already been sworn in! MO RON!
November 19th, 2009 at 11:06 am21 – Isn’t that what a truly sterling valet does…?
(Along with brushing lint off ones’ lapels, of course.)
November 19th, 2009 at 11:06 amIs FoxNews still yammering on about ACORN?
How about all those crooks with their hands in the Iraqi till, such as Xe, formerly known as Blackwater?
By the way, Sarah Palin becomes an even bigger idiot and ignoramus with each passing day.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:06 amlet me get this straight..
He claims ACORN rigged the absentee ballots.. he lost before the absentee ballots.. wouldn’t it be more logical to assume he would continue the same trend? Nah.. obviously all 10,000 of those votes were for him.. but ACORN got him…. riiiight.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:08 amevan@29, I noticed after yesterday’s MSM blitz, MSNBC has barely mentioned Sarah at all today. Could it be that MSM is wisening up to the fact that the average American can’t stand the broad?
November 19th, 2009 at 11:09 amP.D. says:
Are ALL the ‘Conservatives’ this stupid now? Is Sarah the ‘Brightest’ they have?
Well if she`s the brightest and the hope of the right, they have to run more stupid people so she still can be the brightest, of course they do not realize that a bulb burns its brightest just before the burn out comes.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:10 amlux@30, I think the GOP is running out of conspiricies. ACORN was SOooo last month!
November 19th, 2009 at 11:11 amP.D. @24, exactly…one twit said Palin was more qualified to be in the White House than Obama…I wanted to slap her and then I pitied her for wasting money on a book of wasted paper…
November 19th, 2009 at 11:11 amThe GOP in NY-23 has 40,000 more registered voters than the Democratic Party.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:13 amOff the top of my head that would be about 35,000 voters who couldn’t be bothered to show up on the GOP, whilst EVERY Democrat would have to have voted to produce the election result–highly unlikely.
past#34, Yeah, these people are hopeless. But then again, if they want to wait for hours and waste their money, more power to the idiots.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:14 amWhat kind of idiotic moron would un-concede an election? This ain’t Florida ya dope. No changing the rules after the vote! All we are asking is that every vote be counted until we get the results we want!
November 19th, 2009 at 11:15 amHOFFMAN: As evidence surfaces…
The “evidence” according to Hoffman? This:
I’m surprised this buffoon can even talk and walk at the same time
November 19th, 2009 at 11:16 amObama thinking about Afghanistan = dithering
Hoffman dithering on NY-23 election = leadership
according to the GOP
November 19th, 2009 at 11:16 amIt looks like Hoffman got his marching orders from the GOP — delay and obstruct as much as possible, and make sure you mention “ACORN” and “labor unions” in a negative light as often as you can.
Wonder what he gets in exchange for this? If I was Hoffman and saw what my chances are in this race, I’d just as soon concede with some dignity and go home. I’d have to be well compensated if somebody wanted me to play the nuisance card.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:17 amhirvi tappajan, we understand scurvy, the difference is we have a black president now, right?
November 19th, 2009 at 11:24 amWhere is the precedence for this kind of tom-foolery? Never in the history of this great union has a candidate un-conceded an election! It’s un-patriotic, un-American and just down right poopy.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:25 amFranken vs. Coleman was not the same as Owens vs. Hoffman, no matter how sarcastic you get, hirvi.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:32 amAlmost all of which were submitted before Dede Scozzafava dropped out. So he’d have to theoretically win 80% of a 3-way race.
Give it up, Hoffman.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:35 amI can’t understand what in Hoffman’s affect drives me up the wall. But definitely part of it is a vacuous grin that says no perception.
He’s definitly proving the point now. At least he’s not emulating Minesotta’s election delaying Franken.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:36 amhe’s playing the loonie repug cannard of “ACORN” and lefty unamerican unions stole the election from me…
November 19th, 2009 at 11:38 amIf Hitler Was A Liberal Socialist, why didn’t he blame the Reichstag fire on himself, and send himself to a re-education camp?
November 19th, 2009 at 11:55 amSarah Palin told him that she would have sex with him, but then she unconceded.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:59 am**whispering**
Should one of us tell Hitler that hitting himself in the head when he gives the salute might be causing brain damage and he should stop?
November 19th, 2009 at 12:03 pmWell, good for him, he can look even more ridiculous when the count is over and…
….he still loses.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:07 pmAnd re-concedes.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:10 pmThe NY 23 constituents must be so happy this doorknob did not get in.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:15 pmEgad. Commonsense conservatism rears its ugly head. Let the tangled web weaving begin.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:27 pmI kinda know that part of NY, HAVING GROWN UP THERE… actually, about 20-30 mi to the west… and let me tell you… the ‘minority vote’ in those parts is the Croatian block.
ACORN in upstate NY? The GOOPers need to stick to lies that have some chance of being believable…
November 19th, 2009 at 12:32 pmThat’s re-re-reconcedes… proper tense and declination ‘n all…
November 19th, 2009 at 12:33 pmHoffman’s motive may simply be greed. His website is begging for donations.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:37 pmHitler Was A Liberal Socialist says:
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Doug’s Luke Skywalker, Sarah’s Princess Leia and you people are the Empire. Get ready for a fireworks display of freedom!
I think you have it wrong…you teabaggers are the stormtroopers who mindlessly follow the orders of the Empire, or Corporate America…
November 19th, 2009 at 12:47 pmPrescott Bush LOVED Hitler.
Hitler, a Nazi and right-wing FASCIST, LOVED the Bush Criminals.
George W. sukked dix in college, according to Victor Ashe…
November 19th, 2009 at 1:11 pmOld Uncle Dave says:
Hoffman’s motive may simply be greed. His website is begging for donations.
That’s why he brought ACORN into it. ACORN is always a rallying call for conservatives to donate money. BTW, what does he need money for? He isn’t running for anything.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:20 pmThe GOP has no class; unless you consider low class.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:34 pmI kinda know that part of NY, HAVING GROWN UP THERE… actually, about 20-30 mi to the west… and let me tell you… the ‘minority vote’ in those parts is the Croatian block.
Oh yeah, definitely. The Croatians, the Bosnians, the Vietnamese, the Ugandis and various other refugees, in the Utica-Rome area, where I lived for a decade.
I admire them, actually, because Utica is filled with moronic gangsta wannabes, and they actually will go out of their way to avoid the refugees because the refugees who’ve been in real wars and have had family members die in them, aren’t scared of their threats. It also says a lot about them when you noticed the areas where immigrants have moved in have become the cleanest and safest areas of town in comparison to the areas where ‘real’ Americans live.
Just putting that out there for all the idiots who hate immigrants. You don’t want all those “dirty” immigrants in their town. Fine, we’ll just keep them and be better off for it. :p
November 19th, 2009 at 1:51 pmWhat a feeble clown.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pmBetter get used to it. From now on every Republican electoral loss will be blamed on fraud perpetrated by Acorn.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:42 pmLoonie says:
What a feeble clown.
I beg to differ,
November 19th, 2009 at 2:43 pmI’d go with “bug eyed freak”
It’s not over till all the ballots are counted.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:40 pmNews flash: “Hoffman un-un-unconcedes that he is a dumbass.”
November 19th, 2009 at 6:05 pm