GOP/Conservative congressional hopeful Randy Altschuler has a new TV ad out today ... that hits a Democratic state senator for voting to raise taxes and fees 124 times.
Altschuler’s spot slams his Democratic opponent, Rep. Tim Bishop, for voting “125 times to raise taxes.”Watch Randy Altschuler's Video >Learn more about Tim Bishop coming under fire from constituents for cap-and-trade, obamacare, and more. Randy Altschuler has signed the taxpayer protection pledge.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, the body charged with running the GOP House campaign, lists seven New York seats as among the hundred it considers to be in play -- tied with Pennsylvania for the national lead.
The key races:* Suffolk, where Randy Altschuler has a good chance to defeat Rep. Tim Bishop.Read more about Randy Altschuler and other Republican Challengers >
Randy Altschuler is a self-defined fiscal conservative who says he is committed to free market principles. According to his campaign materials, his top priority is to promote economic growth and to control taxes. He signed the Americans for Tax Reform's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge," opposing any effort to raise taxes and he also wants to cut the corporate tax rate, which he believes has "strangled the competitiveness of American companies abroad."
Randy will run against incumbent Tim Bishop in November.Read more about Randy Altschuler's Primary Win >At the end of June, fourth-term Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) faced a cash-on-hand deficit of $343,500 in New York's 1st Congressional District. Bishop is being challenged by Republican businessman Randy Altschuler. Altschuler has pumped more than $2 million of his own money into his challenge -- although he must still defeat several GOP challengers in the Sept. 14 primary. The district narrowly went for Republican George W. Bush during the 2004 presidential race, while Obama won it by 4 percentage points in 2008.
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The Conservative Party candidate locked in a GOP primary for Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop's seat has an internal polling memo showing that only a fusion candidate with the "C" and "R" lines can win that right-tilting district in the fall.
The memo, obtained by POLITICO, was done by pollster John McLaughlin, who's working with businessman Randy Altschuler, the Conservative line candidate for the seat in which the GOP chips are still falling.The memo basically suggests that the other candidates in the GOP field, which includes Christopher Cox, the grandson of Richard Nixon and son of the New York state GOP chairman, and former SEC attorney George Demos, are spoilers.read more >Businessman Randy Altschuler appears to be the favorite in the GOP race in a district that takes in the eastern half of Long island.
Republican insiders are quietly skeptical that the grandson of the late President Richard M. Nixon, attorney/businessman Chris Cox, will make it out of the Republican primary in New York’s 1st Congressional District.Randy Altschuler, the conservative Republican candidate for Congress (NY-1), today warned Suffolk County taxpayers to “prepare to be mugged.” Altschuler was referring to the expected inaction by Congressional Democrats that will allow the 2001 and 2003 GOP tax cuts to lapse at the end of 2010. Altschuler, a successful self-made businessman, also called on Congressman Tim Bishop to “have the courage to stand-up for taxpayers everywhere and call for the renewal of this legislation.”
Included in the Randy Altschuler campaign’s petition team where 155 members of the GOP County Committee and 65 volunteers who fanned out to collect signatures in the seven towns that make up the 1st Congressional District.
Incumbents nearly always have the cash advantage on Election Day, but according to a Center for Responsive Politics review of campaign finance records, challengers in at least six congressional districts are out-raising their incumbent opposition.
NY01, Randy Altschuler (R-N.Y.) Challenger $1,049,149 vs. Timothy Bishop (D-N.Y.),Incumbent $949,295The Conservative Party candidate locked in a GOP primary for Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop's seat has an internal polling memo showing that only a fusion candidate with the "C" and "R" lines can win that right-tilting district in the fall.
The memo, obtained by POLITICO, was done by pollster John McLaughlin, who's working with businessman Randy Altschuler, the Conservative line candidate for the seat in which the GOP chips are still falling.
The McLaughlin & Assoc. (R) poll, taken for businessman Randy Altschuler (R), shows Bishop leading by a wide 46% to 26% margin. It's a big gap, but the fact that a 4-term incumbent who won in '08 with 58% is polling below 50% could be an indication of trouble ahead. Altschuler is barely known in the district, and if allowed to define himself, he has nowhere to go but up.
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Randy Altschuler, a Wall Street entrepreneur, has emerged as the early favorite among local activists and GOP operatives in Washington, who believe he can meet the all-important benchmarks that determine a candidate’s credibility: endorsements, infrastructure and cash.
“With Randy, it changes the dynamic completely,” said Assembly Member Phil Boyle, who has managed several Republican congressional campaigns in Suffolk. “This is Tim Bishop’s worst nightmare.”
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“Tim Bishop is the one who is outsourcing attacks on a successful businessman, to the DCCC and [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi,” said Christopher Maloney, Randy Altschuler’s campaign manager. “This is the sign of a vulnerable incumbent who is out of touch with the district, and he’s naive as to the global nature of our economic system.”
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... That’s why Republicans also are touting the prospects of businessman Randy Altschuler (R), a candidate against Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) who has put $450,000 into his own race. Altschuler had a strong quarter, pulling in just over $200,000 from individual donors.
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The 10 House candidates with the largest increase in cash on hand during the third quarter are:
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., $2,386,500
House Candidate Rob Miller, D-S.C., $1,595,147
House Candidate Randy Altschuler, R-N.Y., $538,495
Randy Altschuler, a Wall Street entrepreneur, said in a strategy memo that the final tally for the latest fund-raising quarter would come to just over $538,000, drawing national attention to Bishop’s district and helping him win valuable support from national Republicans.
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EAST SETAUKET, NY: John Faso, former State Assembly GOP Leader and 2006 Republican and Conservative Party Gubernatorial candidate, announced on Tuesday that he is endorsing Randy Altschuler for US Congress...
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Former GOP Assembly Leader and ex-gubernatorial candidate John Faso has endorsed Randy Altschuler’s run for the congressional seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop.
"... National and local GOP representatives have already discussed a potential campaign against Bishop with Randy Altschuler of St. James, chairman of the board of CloudBlue, an electronics recycling consultancy firm. Alschuler's bid has already begun to garner "some positive attention," and the candidate is "very dedicated to working," Mazzola said..."
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