GOP mulls stripping Dede of top post

[ccharles000]

Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee who issued an election eve endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens in the Nov. 3 New York special election, will meet with Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb Monday to discuss whether she will be stripped of her assembly leadership position.

POLITICO has learned that Kolb will announce after the face-to-face meeting whether Scozzafava, the Minority Leader Pro Tempore, will remain as the GOP floor leader.

“Fundamentally my members are very disappointed with her endorsement of Bill Owens and aiding him in helping achieve the Nancy Pelosi health care plan in Washington,” Kolb said.

Scozzafava’s last-minute endorsement, issued one day after she dropped out of the race, gave Owens a key boost in the close race and helped deliver a congressional seat held by the GOP for more than a century to the Democratic Party.

Owens defeated Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman 49 percent to 46 percent, with Scozzafava, whose name remained on the ballot, pulling in 5 percent.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29251.html

[Jennicut]

1. Time to switch parties, Dede.

[Arkana]

2. I guess since Obama was too popular to attach to health care

the wingers have taken to calling it "NANCY PELOSI'S PLAN" instead.

[AndyA]

3. Democrats please pay attention to this.

Take a lesson from the Republicans, then attend to Lieberman, please.

[tblue]

4. Dems could take a lesson from this re: Lieberman.

They have every right to do it. But so do we. Getting really tired of our Congresspeople acting like the "Playin' it Safe" party.