Written by ALG News

Monday, 09 November 2009 17:47

Most outside political observers think that the fix was in for the NY 23 Dems on the Saturday before the election when Dede dropped and threw her support to Bill Owens. Turns out, that's just not so.

Last Friday, in Albany, the just-elected Dems and their Big Labor puppet handlers held a breakfast to divvy up the spoils of their victory. As the breakfast wound down, the regional rep for the SEIU stood up to thank NY Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver for alerting them the Thursday before the election that Dede was going to stop her campaign the following Saturday and then endorse Owens. He appreciated the fact that the heads-up allowed the union bosses to immediately organize bus trips with union "volunteers" into the district, organize phone banks, and put on a large-scale union drive to get votes for Owens.

So now, inqWIREing minds want to know: who tipped off Shelly Silver? Why would Dede wait for two days other than to give the unions time to organize? And, most importantly, what list were all those SEIU "vols" calling? Could it possibly have been the list of identified supporters of DeDe that that NRCC had spent Republican money to develop? The NY-23 situation just keeps getting dirtier by the minute -- and all to give Pelosi the margin for her power grab.