Claudia Tenney Hopes to Ride David Brat Wave to Victory over Richard Hanna

[Brian4Liberty]

Will there be another establishment GOP Primary surprise tomorrow?

Richard Hanna is big government, establishment RINO, who was one of few GOP members of Congress who sided with Cantor and Boehner to give Obama a clean debt ceiling increase. He is also a member of the anti-Tea Party organization Republican Main Street Partnership founded by Steve LaTourette, whose membership includes neoconservative Senators John McCain and Mark Kirk.

Randolph-Macon economics professor David Brat attributed his stunning victory over Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Virginia in part to the negative ads that Cantor ran on television, which he said boosted his name recognition.

Now, in New York, a similarly outgunned primary challenger says the same thing may be happening there.

New York Republican Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney says she is grateful that political attack ads by her Congressional primary opponent Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) greatly boosted her name ID around the Upstate New York district. Through TV ads and liberal Super PACs, Hanna, who currently has a 52 lifetime ACU rating, is attacking Tenney as a “tax and spend liberal” and as someone who is aligned with the liberal Democratic New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon (Shelly) Silver.

“The only place I’m not well known is Courtland, Broome, and Tioga. That’s where I’m trying to build name ID is down there, but Richard actually built my name ID. Now I have to make it positive and get the vote out,” she told Breitbart News on Saturday.
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Similar to Virginia Republican candidate for Congress David Brat’s campaign, Tenney’s camp is helped by enthusiastic local Tea Party groups, Tenney says. She attended a number of Tea Party events in 2010 when Hanna ran for Congress a second time and won.

“At that time when I was at Tea Party rallies, 90 percent of them were all Marines or veterans who care about our Constitution—less government, less taxes. There weren’t all these peripheral issues. That’s what they were really interested in, so I don’t know why the national Republicans... just completely maligned and denigrated their base.”
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...David-Brat-Wave-To-Victory-Over-Richard-Hanna

 

[Rocco]

Hanna is literally THE worst, and I have talked to Tenney personally and I think she is sincere in her conservative convictions. She is anti NSA, she is anti Fed, I think she will be with us on quite a bit. Libertarians should absolutely vote for Claudia Tenney today in NY22!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Hanna is literally THE worst...

Yep, he is right there in the middle of the establishment, RINO, anti-Tea Party folks. This would be another huge loss for the establishment RINOs.

 

[TomtheTinker]

I live in Hanna's district and would love to vote against him. But its so hard to sift though a state assemblywomans record. I haven't had time to do research due to a lot of other life problems and wont be able to vote for two years because I picked up a felony recently for possession or marijuana. Does anybody have some sort of solid information on her that they can share with me?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

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[Brian4Liberty]

I live in Hanna's district and would love to vote against him. But its so hard to sift though a state assemblywomans record. I haven't had time to do research due to a lot of other life problems and wont be able to vote for two years because I picked up a felony recently for possession or marijuana. Does anybody have some sort of solid information on her that they can share with me?

She has seemed competent in radio interviews. I don't have any other inside information.

She is Tea Party, but not libertarian or part of the Ron Paul Tea Party faction. One of her sales pitches is that she is the mother of a Marine, so she would probably be more like Ted Cruz in support of military action. Not perfect, but better than Hanna. Her main positive is that she is going up against the establishment RINOs, and that may be as good as it gets. You never know for sure until they start voting.

 

[AlbertJNocke]

While Hanna is horrible, Tenney is a total neocon.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

While Hanna is horrible, Tenney is a total neocon.

She could be. I'm guessing she is more teo-con. Would like more info on where she stands on The Bill of Rights other than the 2nd (she is supposed to be a big 2nd Amendment supporter, GOA endorsed).

 

[Brian4Liberty]

While Hanna is horrible, Tenney is a total neocon.

The race is over, so it doesn't matter, but Hanna was backed by Sheldon Adelson, which would also make him a neoconservative.

The other PAC supporting Hanna is Sheldon Adelson’s Patriot Prosperity PAC.

 

[TomtheTinker]

bahhhh. Pretty close race..Hanna won 53%-47%. It looks like Hanna's days are numbered he probably only won because of name recognition.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

bahhhh. Pretty close race..Hanna won 53%-47%. It looks like Hanna's days are numbered he probably only won because of name recognition.

The establishment RINOs and neoconservatives spent a lot of money saying that she was a liberal. Lying about opponents seems to be standard procedure from the establishment.

 

[RandallFan]

bahhhh. Pretty close race..Hanna won 53%-47%. It looks like Hanna's days are numbered he probably only won because of name recognition.

He was going to win in November running on the minor party ticket with all Democrats and some Republican voters electing him. It is good Hanna and Lamborn faced close primaries.

Look at Bloomberg and De Blasio's names appearing multiple times.

Michael Grimm the 3rd biggest RINO could survive with no NRCC support, because his opponent is such a liberal. Domenic Recchia his running his campaign like his party name is Concerned Americans for Sodomy and Solar Power.