New York Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava is the Republican candidate in a special election for New York\u2019s 23rd district congressional seat.\u00a0 She was hand-picked by party bosses, although many conservatives believe she is too liberal and prefer Doug Hoffman, who is running on the New York Conservative Party line.<\/p>\n
So, last night, Scozzafava was at a speaking engagement, following which Weekly Standard<\/em> editor John McCormack tried to ask her some questions about her positions.\u00a0 That didn\u2019t go well, to say the least.\u00a0 Someone on Scozzafava\u2019s staff called the cops on McCormack.\u00a0 Read the whole story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Would McCormack\u2019s infraction be categorized as “Questioning a thin-skinned political hack under the influence of conservatism?”<\/p>\n Another great choice, Republicans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava is the Republican candidate in a special election for New York\u2019s 23rd district congressional seat.\u00a0 She was hand-picked by party bosses, although many conservatives believe she is too liberal and prefer Doug Hoffman, who is running on the New York Conservative Party line. So, last night, Scozzafava was at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[325],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-dede-scozzafava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}