| The NY-23 fallout has resulted in a double-whammy of bad news for Craig Benson protege Kelly Ayotte.
First, it looks like the Club for Growth, not buying Ayotte's transparently last minute conversion to Hoffman, was undeterred by the NY-23 loss: Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, another conservative group that campaigned heavily on behalf of Mr. Hoffman, said the organization was now considering issuing endorsements in contested Senate and House Republican races in New Hampshire, Florida, Kentucky and California.
And secondly, Big John Cornyn and the NRSC were deterred from their not-so-covert support for Judd Gregg's chosen successor: "We will not spend money in a contested primary," Sen. John Cornyn,
the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told ABC
News in a telephone interview today.
"There's no incentive for us to weigh in," said Cornyn, R-Texas. "We have to look at our resources. . . . We're not going to throw money into a [primary] race leading up to the election." So will Big John be giving back the Benjamins he's already dropped on Team Ayotte? A question for the ages...
Wait a sec - did I say "double-whammy"? I meant triple-whammy. In the ever-expanding field of Republican contenders, Fred Tausch 2.0 launched yesterday: [Bill] Binnie, 51, said he decided to run after many months of consideration and because he was concerned about the priorities expressed by the other candidates. A native of Scotland who moved to the United States when he was 5, Binnie has never run for political office before and believes not being a career politician is an asset.
To get his campaign off the ground, Binnie said he will use an undetermined amount of his own money, but plans to build "the largest grass-roots political organization the state has ever seen." Have I mentioned yet how much I love self-funders? |
