From Neil DiCarlo's campaign:
Neil Di Carlo trumped Senator Saland by 92 votes in the 41st district primary after absentee and write-in ballots were counted for the Republican and Conservative parties (unofficial BOE counts). Di Carlo and Senator Saland each won one line: Di Carlo won over 81% of conservative votes while Senator Saland, after alienating his base, won a Pyrrhic victory on the Republican line by only 1%.
... Di Carlo added, “Despite being outspent $700,000 to my $25,000 I have shown that integrity matters and that ideas and morals matters more than money. I have also exposed the Senator for what he is, a RINO. Governor Cuomo's and Mayor Bloomberg's recent endorsements of Senator Saland prove that they believe he is more of a progressive Democrat than the Democrat candidate!”
Di Carlo concluded, “I want to thank all my volunteers for bringing my campaign this far. Having won the majority of votes in the primary, I look forward to winning the general election in November and serving the people of the 41st with integrity as their State Senator.”
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Funny how you didn't mention that this was the ONLY marriage equality senator that lost his primary. The other two won. You people seem to be quiet when things don't go your way.
Even the gay press release stories that do not flatter the community, Jacy is correct.
Jacy Topps,
That's simply not true.
The next blog post title is, "Marchione Extends Lead Over Mcdonald".
McDonald lost too.
A third declined to seek reelection.
That's three out of four down, and the fourth hasn't been reelected yet, so all four incumbents could fail to get reelected.
@Preserve Marriage
Exactly.
Yes, they could all lose in November. But 3/4 not rejected by their own party. They might be rejected by the general electorate in favor of Dems but the reason but would not be equal marriage.
Considering the importance attached to this whole thing by NOM, the only thing that can be gleaned is that equal marrige splits GOP. But shouldn't GOP base be overwhelmingly aligned to anti-gay position? No, it seems not.
What this shows is that Tea Prty or NOM or whoever, efforts to oust moderate GOPs only leave the door open to more Dems in Senate taking the 60000ft view.
I don't think Mr. Di Carlo's campaign knows the meaning of the phrase "Pyrrhic victory". When the senate seat ends up going to a Democrat who supports same-sex marriage thanks to Di Carlo's challenge, and the state senate returns to the control of the Democrats, then I think they'll understand.
The only reason why the Republicans won control of the senate in New York was because of their stated opposition to marriage corruption. Now that the (R)'s have betrayed their constituency in favor of their leftist pimps the people no longer have a reason to support them.
The same thing happened in California about a decade ago when the people handed control over to the (R)'s due to the ideological corruption of the (D)'s only to see the (R)'s go back on their promises and prove that the (R)'s and the (D)'s in California each work as prostitutes in the same whore house.