The Pro War Republicans to get rid of Goodell who angered Nixon had to defeat Goodell by running James Buckley as a Conservartive. New York State has 4 political parties (Democrat, Liberal, Republican and Conservative). The Democrat normally runs with the Liberal Party and the Republican Party runs with the Conservative Party.
Because of Goodell's opposition, the GOP establishment threw their support for Buckley even though Goodell was their nominee. In 1980 when Javitts was defeated by D'Amato in the GOP primary, Javitts ran with the endorsement of the Liberal Party and caused that seat to go to D'Amato.
In a three way race, Buckley narrowly won in 1970. In 1976 Moynihan defeated Buckley.
]]>I thought there were 2 right answers to question 33. If Government taxes = spending, you have a debt of zero as well as the per capita spending answer which they said was correct.
]]>One GOP direct mail company (BMW Direct) rips off unsuspecting GOP candidates and its conservative donors base by luring idiots into Don Quixote campaigns against liberal Democrats. BMW Direct fleeces the pigeon candidate of 97% of the money they raise while the conservative donor base is fooled into believing they are giving money to a legitimate challenger instead of a patsy. You can bet Uncle Barney Frank has been used as a fund raising tool for the GOP by more than just BMW Direct.
Charles A. Morse, a conservative Republican gadfly from Brookline, ran a brief write-in campaign to unseat US Representative Barney Frank in 2006. It fizzled completely when he received just 145 votes in a primary and dropped out two months before the general election.
"I never saw him," Frank said when asked about Morse's presence in the campaign.
Yet the political fund-raising firm that ran Morse's campaign finances reported that it raised more than $700,000 for his race, much of it from GOP contributors across the country eager to help defeat a Massachusetts liberal - and some of it donated well after Morse abandoned the race.
A review of campaign reports shows that, rather than spending that money in the Fourth Congressional District, 96 percent of the funds raised in Morse's name were used to pay a politically connected direct-mail firm in Washington, BMW Direct Inc., and a coterie of BMW Direct's affiliates and contractors. The firms specialize in national fund-raising appeals on behalf of conservative Republican candidates and right-wing causes.
The pattern in the Morse campaign of raising big sums from donors yet spending little on that campaign is similar to other fund-raising operations managed by BMW Direct, a private company whose financial statements and executive salaries are not disclosed. The list includes work for Republican Ken Chase's failed 2006 challenge of Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a 2006 congressional candidate in Georgia, and on behalf of Veterans for Victory, a group that sought to raise questions in similar fashion to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth about John F. Kerry's war record when the Massachusetts senator was running for president.
Ultimately, Federal Elections Commission records show, $30,000 was devoted directly to Morse's campaign expenses in the Fourth Congressional District. And Morse said he was shocked when told by the Globe how much BMW Direct had raised and spent in the name of his candidacy.
"That is craziness," he said. "I am really amazed. It is really way above and beyond what I was made aware of."
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