State's GOP loses ground: Party is a shadow of its 1995 image

[Judi Lynn]

State's GOP loses ground
Party is a shadow of its 1995 image

By TOM PRECIOUS
News Albany Bureau
11/19/2005

State Sen. Dale Volker says upstate GOP base has suffered.

ALBANY - When George E. Pataki, the "little-known, ex-mayor of Peekskill," swept Mario Cuomo, the powerful embodiment of the Democratic Party, out of office in 1994, Republicans vowed to spread their revolution throughout the state.
It didn't work out that way.

Today, as Pataki nears the end of his three terms as governor, the Republican Party in New York is a shadow of its 1995 strength.

Consider what has happened over the past 11 years:

• The state's two U.S. Senate seats, split between the parties when Pataki took office, are now both Democratic, and held by politicians - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer - who made major inroads in traditional GOP upstate.
  
  
• The state's congressional delegation has gone from a 17-14 Democratic advantage in 1995 to a 20-9 edge for Democrats.
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[Missy M]

1. Now if the rest of the country would just follow our lead in New York!!!

[RazzleDazzle]

2. I'd put this in the

"can't fool all of the people all of the time" category. They got nothin', these Repukes. Nothin' but empty promises and wedge politics.