(Bob Turner) Just Elected to Congress, and Already Talking of Staying

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Source: The New York Times

Bob Turner, who won a special election on Tuesday to succeed Anthony D. Weiner in Congress, emerged onto his porch in Rockaway Point, Queens, at 9:45 on Wednesday morning in a polo shirt and shorts and bare feet, still groggy from his victory party the night before.

“I thought my 15 minutes was over,” Mr. Turner said as he bent down to pick up his newspaper.

But his moment is only beginning. On Wednesday night, at a gala Republican dinner in Manhattan, he was hailed as a hero by party leaders, who pulled out smartphones and digital cameras to pose with him, and who chanted “Turner! Turner! Turner!” as he rose to speak in a high-ceilinged ballroom. And on Thursday morning, he was scheduled to be sworn in at the United States Capitol as a 70-year-old Congressional freshman.

A retired television executive who helped create “The Jerry Springer Show,” Mr. Turner now has only months to prove that he is more than a passing expression of anger by a piqued electorate whose congressman resigned after a scandal involving lewd online behavior. The district he will represent, New York’s Ninth, was widely expected to be eliminated next year; Mr. Turner’s election is forcing state lawmakers to rethink redistricting plans, and he says that, however they redraw the political map, he plans to fight to remain in Congress.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/nyregion/bob-turner-on-way-to-congress-speaks-of-staying-there.html?pagewanted=all

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To my fellow DUers and progressives in Brooklyn and Queens...I'm sorry that this doofus who once produced Jerry Springer and will dance lock and step with Boehner and Cantor is now representing you in Congress. Please get out and VOTE HIM OUT in November 2012!

[No Elephants]

1. Wait, what?

New York State lawmakers were ready to eliminate this district when Weiner held the seat. However, now that a Republican won it, they are re-thinking?

What?

[n2doc]

2. Isn't the NY legislature controlled by Dems? n/t

[glinda]

3. Dems are giving the Country over to conservative nuts.

[formercia]

4. 'Third Way' Democrats.

The Fifth Column in the Democratic Party.

We were wise to them when they called themselves the DLC. They change their name, but are just old whores in new dresses.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. The GOP has a majority in the Senate, Democrats have a majority in the House

[brooklynite]

6. Who cares what he says?

The State Legislature is divided between Democrats and Republicans. If they don't get rid of his seat, they'll have to get ride of another Republican.

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