Reply #1: UNBELIEVABLE!! - A taste of the future?

[better2know]

Free article NYT

Slamming the NY Republican canidates:

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"I've tried to meddle," Mr. D'Amato acknowledged in an interview last week, "to the extent that I said to party leaders that this would be the first year in modern history that we're in danger of losing every single statewide office."
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"I don't think that Bill Weld represents the hopes and aspirations of the working- middle-class families; I don't think he understands our problems," said Mr. D'Amato, 68, who grew up working class, but who recently graduated to a 5,000-square-foot house on an oceanfront lot in Lido Beach on Long Island.
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Alluding to reports in The New York Post that Kathleen Troia McFarland, a prospective Republican challenger to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, failed to vote on numerous occasions, including the election in 1984 (when she says she recalls voting), Mr. D'Amato said: "Tell me you missed the school board elections, but not voting for president, for the man who appointed you. And you're such a great Reaganite?"
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In the interview, Mr. D'Amato said of Jeanine F. Pirro, his party's leading contender for attorney general: "She will be an easy target for her opponents in the general election. She has her lines down perfectly, but that's not good enough. When opponents bring up the record, she's going to be embarrassed." He declined to elaborate on her political liabilities: "I'm not supposed to mention that. I'm not bad-mouthing her."
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Ouch!

A very big player to be stepping on so many big toes in such a big state.
K&R