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General News: Townsend Greets Supporters in Cornwall
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| Jay Townsend shared his enthusiam for the upcoming race against Schumer with his supporters in Cornwall. |
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| Townsend supporter Peter Duggan introduced the Senate candidate. |
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| His campaign headquarters at 55 Quaker Avenue. |
September 20, 2010
Jay Townsend, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate who lives in Cornwall-on-Hudson, hosted a reception on Sunday at his headquarters on Quaker Avenue in Cornwall to thank all of his hometown supporters for their early efforts to back him when many mainstream Republicans turned their backs on him.
Townsend won a solid victory against Gary Berntsen in last Tuesday’s primary vote even though Berntsen had been named the official designee of the state Republican party. Townsend already has the backing of the Conservative Party.
Townsend said his strategy for success in the primary focused on the western part of the state. He said he went to Buffalo six times, a tactic that paid off when he won 72 percent of the vote in Erie County. Townsend said he will pursue a similar strategy in the general election against incumbent senator Chuck Schumer and will return to all 62 counties he visited during the primary race.
After attending an enthusiastic rally of Tea Party Patriots in Oneota this weekend, Townsend said that the mood of the nation is “toxic” because of high unemployment and a poor economy and that it will hurt incumbent Democrats like Schumer. “The winds of change are already here and my prediction is that by election day there will be a gale wind force,” Townsend said.
On a personal note, Townsend gave credit to his wife, Rebecca, for encouraging him to dive into the senate race and he recalled how thrilling it was to see his numbers rising on election night. He told his supporters that the first words he said as his victory was clear last Tuesday were: “Gee, this was fun.”
Townsend noted that he may be appearing in his first televised debate with Senator Schumer on October 8th, the date proposed by ABC News 7 in New York. Townsend said he has accepted to appear but his opponent has been mum on the invitation.
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Nancy - thank you for covering this event.
Kudos to Jay and his team for taking on Schumer!
Please get to know Jay - follow him on FaceBook - Jay Townsend for New York and visit his website www.townsendfornewyork.com
Please share with your family and friends...every vote counts!!
JAY4NY...JAY4NY...JAY4NY...
posted by Patti Spaulding on 09/20/10 at 3:13 PM
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From Mr. Towsend's website:
"The health care plan rammed through the U. S. Senate by Senator Schumer will swell the ranks of the jobless, raise taxes on those who can least afford them, cause health insurance premiums to skyrocket, and place federal bureaucrats between doctor and patient. It will deprive millions of Americans of access to the quality health care they have come to expect, retard the development of new miracle drugs and medical devices, force doctors into early retirement, and ruin the best health care system the world has known."
It's too bad that almost that entire paragraph is untrue. There ought to be law against making claims like this without providing hard evidence to support it. Almost everything this paragraph claims is the opposite of reality, and the rest is pure conjecture because most of the legislation has yet to go into effect.
There is no credible analysis that supports the notion that people will no longer have access to the same exact healthcare they were enjoying before the legislation was passed. The Legislation was written to be deficit neutral, so taxes will not go up as a result, and there is nothing in the legislation that will place any more "federal bureaucrats" between anyone and their doctor than already exist. That is the kind of paranoia that the oh-so-informed Sarah Palin was spreading around and it is completely bogus. Sure, people WITHOUT healthcare who want to sign up for one of the government health care exchanges will have to fill out some forms, but please, people, are we really this irrational?
How is guaranteeing people access to drugs they need going to retard development of new ones? If anything this legislation was a huge giveaway to big Pharma. How is this legislation going to drive doctors into early retirement? I work for an Internal Medicine association, and I've got news for you; doctors are ALREADY being driven into early retirement by poor Medicare compensation, skyrocketing insurance premiums, and skyrocketing treatment costs. All things the recent legislation is aimed at correcting.
Jeez, if Mr. Schumer doesn't agree to debate Mr. Townsend. I'd be happy to.
posted by Ted Warren on 09/20/10 at 4:44 PM
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Although it's nice to have neighbors active in government - I wish it wasn't for the radical fringe. Where were the tea partiers for the last 10 years with regards to the deficits after President Clinton left office with a surplus? The health care plan (not unlkike that of Massachusetts "rammed in" (?) when Governor Mitt Romney was in office hasn't swollen the ranks of the jobless - although the Great Recession that we entered into in 2008 (who was President?) seemed to do a pretty good job of "swelling the jobless".
As I am sure Mr. Townsend is aware - Health care for all was first suggested by Richard Nixon - and by successive Presidents thereafter.
Jay, and i guess Sarah Palin and the Senate candidate from Kentucky and now Delaware make it very clear that, as those high school elections for Class President were usually won by a popularity count - the current wave of emotion by those advocating a reversal of everything exemplifies the dream of the way it was. Which, if one stops to think about it, really wasn't that great.
And as far as federal bureaucrats are concerned, guess who these Tea Party reps are going to have to deal with? And to all those hypocrites who say the government needs to stay out of their business - but accept Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, paved roads, libraries, postal services and on and on - to say nothing of our armed services (and Mr. Townsend thinks less is better? Less armor on the Humvees (a la Donald Rumsfeld)? Less police, fire and EMS?) Please. Were Jay not affiliated with the Tea Party, I myself perhaps would be more interested in him. As he is - absolutely not.
posted by james bell on 09/20/10 at 9:23 PM
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