Alarm Bells at the White House Over David Weprin’s Race in NY-9
NY09 110Unlike the other New York special election races where
the Democrats batted a thousand and the media covered them as
prognosticators of doom and gloom for the GOP, there’s been
radio silence for the most part on the special election to
replace Anthony Weiner in NY-9.But there are alarm bells going
on at the White House and the DNC. The DCCC just dropped a half-
million dollars into a district the Democrats should easily
win.The House Majority PAC is suddenly dumping money into the
race.The DCCC is “said to be ‘panicking’” about the race. They
should. This was Chuck Schumer’s district and Anthony Weiner’s
district and the race is extremely close. Voters in NY-9 want to
send a message to Barack Obama that they hate his policies on
Israel (the district is strongly Jewish) and they hate his
economics proposals.A prominent Democrat and member of the
Jewish community, Dov Hikind crossed party lines to endorse
Republican Bob Turner against Democ