Richard Hanna of Barneveld in Oneida County intends to file with the Federal Election Commission as a candidate for the 24th Congressional District. He will seek the Republican, Conservative and Independence party endorsements. [Read Hanna’s Full Announcement]

Richard Hanna of Barneveld in Oneida County intends to file with the Federal Election Commission as a candidate for the 24th Congressional District. He will seek the Republican, Conservative and Independence party endorsements.

Hanna, who is married with two young children, is a lifelong resident of upstate New York and a successful businessman having employed over 450 people in his 27 years in private business. Richard is educated in economics and has a 30-year history of community involvement; in 2007, he received The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties’ Rosamond Childs Award for Philanthropy and throughout his life has received dozens of other community service awards. Richard ran as a first time candidate in 2008 – one of the worst years in Republican history with little national help – yet had one of the closest races in the United States losing by about two percentage points against a career politician.

“We are fostering a political system that spends most of its time at war with itself ignoring its responsibilities to its citizens and the future,” Hanna said. “As we live through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression every American’s share of our multitrillion dollar debt is over $184,000. If we do not begin to act responsibly and with urgency we risk being the last generation to pass to our children the full promise of our upstate community and this nation.

“I am running as an Independent minded, pragmatic American who believes that it is government’s responsibility to clear the way for individuals to solve problems, to foster all those productive economic and educational elements that create jobs and opportunity, which has allowed our nation’s citizens to enjoy the highest standard of living in the world,” Hanna continued. “We are living at a time of grave consequences as well as opportunity. How we respond is how the future and how our children will judge us.”

NRCC Comment: “Michael Arcuri should review the Massachusetts election results closely because it’s clear that voters, especially independents, are motivated to stop the Obama-Pelosi big government agenda he supports.  Frustrated by Arcuri’s partisan record, Central New Yorkers want an independent voice in Congress that fights to create jobs, cut spending and lower taxes.  Richard Hanna will provide that leadership and put people back to work.” – Tory Mazzola, NRCC Spokesman

Some quick facts on NY-24:

48% In 2008, a tough election cycle for Republicans by any standard, Hanna earned 48% of the vote against Michael Arcuri.  In 2010, Democrats are not safe in Massachusetts, a deep blue state where Obama took 62% of the vote.

50% President Obama garnered only 50% in this district in 2008.  As the election results in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia prove, 2010 will be a very different cycle and the Obama-Pelosi message can’t even pull off a win in the Bay State.

+2 The Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI) favors the GOP by 2 points.

+6 In 2004, President George W. Bush carried the district by 6, earning 53% of the vote.

91% Michael Arcuri has proven his partisan stripes by voting with Nancy Pelosi 91% of the time, including a vote for government-run healthcare, a bill that only 33% of Americans think is a “good idea.”

The 30 second television ad, entitled “The Real Change,” will run in Massachusetts until the Special Election on January 12.

The ad reminds voters that next Tuesday they can send Washington the message that its time to end the madness. Republican Scott Brown, can end the bailouts, broken promises and all the back room deals behind closed doors. Enough is enough.

Ad Script:

This election, Massachusetts can stop the runaway power of lobbyists & Washington politicians who refuse to listen.

A vote for Scott Brown can bring balance back to government, and stop a healthcare plan that taxes us during a recession for benefits received years from now.

The unions don’t want it, businesses don’t want it…and the people don’t want it.
What we need is jobs.

It’s time to break the party line.

Vote for Scott Brown and send Washington politicians a message: enough is enough!

Paid for by the National Republican Trust PAC which is responsible for the content of this message.

By the way, Both Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace also oppose this legislation… wonder if   the League Of Conservation Voters are producing ads denouncing those organizations?

This is what Scott Brown’s website says about his view on on Energy and environmental issues… you be the judge!

Energy and Environment
I support common-sense environment policy that will help to reduce pollution and preserve our precious open spaces. I realize that without action now, future generations will be left to clean up the mess we leave. In order to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, I support reasonable and appropriate development of alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal and improved hydroelectric facilities. I oppose a national cap and trade program because of the higher costs that families and businesses would incur.

The ad misrepresents the The American Clean Air And Security Act in two ways, One, by saying it will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, when in fact, United States oil companies would be forced, (by law under the Waxman-Markey bill) due to competition, to import even more refined oil products such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.

In addition to NOT reducing our dependence on foreign oil, the bill would also lose more jobs than it creates. According to a letter sent by Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform sent to Senator’s Boxer and Kerry on Monday Sept. 28th 2009 “the national energy tax could cost 2,500,000 American jobs by 2035!”

In addition to raising the cost of energy thousands of dollars each year on every American family, this legislation will crush our economy. By 2035, “durable manufacturing employment” will have lost 1.17 million jobs. “Nondurable manufacturing” will lose almost 210,000 jobs by 2035. Combined, manufacturing unemployment is expected to reach a high of 1.38 million lost jobs in 2035.

Other industries will experience equally devastating job losses: fabricated-metal industry will lose more than 216,000 jobs by 2035; machinery industry will lose 263,000 jobs by 2035; plastic & rubber production jobs lose 80,000 below business-as-usual in 2035. Retail-trade unemployment will lose 78,000 per year, while wholesale trade industries lose 191,000 on average each year.

The trade, transportation, and utilities sector will shed 1.1 million jobs by 2035 and 441,000 for the yearly average. Transportation and warehousing employment will see an average yearly loss of 175,000 jobs all because of a cap-and-trade proposal.

Your national energy tax could cost 2,500,000 American jobs by 2035!

These types of ads do nothing to advance the debate or educate the public into making an informed decision on election day, attack ads are part of the process but they should, at the very least, get the facts right!

On the heels of last night’s final debate between Martha Coakley, Scott
Brown and Joseph L. Kennedy, Coakley released a new ad attacking Scott
Brown — an aggressive turn that many Democratic observers have thought
was long overdue.

However the ad’s message might get lost by a
spelling gaffe that appears in the ad’s closing seconds. In the fine
print appearing at the bottom of the screen, the ad reads:

Paid for by Massachusettes Democratic Party and Authorized by Martha Coakley for Senate. Approved by Martha Coakley.

Close
observers will notice that there is an extra ‘E’ tacked onto the end of
‘Massachusetts. It’s a trivial oversight, for sure, but you can bet
that the jokes and jabs the typo will inspire will blunt at least some
of the impact of the ad.

I think it’s a very well designed ad, and the message is probably spot on for the audience. This might be one of the best ads I’ve ever seen, actually.

Was the whole Scozzafava campaign a lie?

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