Ed Lurie, a longtime player on the Capitol scene, has quit as executive director of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, a post he has held since 1990, it was announced.
The basic "time to move on" message was released late today -- four days after the GOP lost another Senate seat to narrow its majority, held since the 1960's, to 32-30, with all state legislative seats up for election in November.
Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno said in his announcement that Neil Newhouse, a partner and co-founder of the Public Opinion Strategies firm, has "agreed to assist the committee on an interim basis" and "review our political operations from top to bottom."
Liz Benjamin has some more details here.
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It is time for him TO pack it it, HE SHOULD RETIRE, GIVE HIM A GOLD WATCH, ONE WAY TICKET TO FLORIDA, AND MAYBE A NICE CONDO. HE LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN A DISASTER. THEN JOE & JOE SHOULD JOIN HIM THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF GOLD WATCHES OR TICKETS TO FLORIDA AND CONDOS. TIME TO PUT THIS BUNCH OF LOSERS OUT TO PASTURE.
IT IS TIME FOR NEW LEADERSHIP AND A NEW SENATE. A SENATE THAT UNDERSTANDS THEY ARE REPUBLICANS NOT ME TO DEMOCRATICS. THEY HAVE LOST THERE WAY. THEY NO LONGER BELIEVE IN ANYTHING. SO I SAY GET OUT RETIRE GO TO FLORIDA AND ALLOW A NEW REPUBLICAN SENATE TO BE ELECTED IN THE COMING NOVEMBER MCCAIN LANDSLIDE. SO ED, JOE & JOE LEAD THEY WAY AND GET OUT RETIRE GO TO FLORIDA.
This is very old news already.
NO rocket science here.
NY GOP is “Months” behind other consultants who are NOT in Albany.
I and many others Conservatives have been saying for months that the NY GOP needs to go back to their grass roots and somehow or someway start acting like Republicans and not like Democrats.
30,000 more Republicans then Democrats in the 48th and they walked away from the GOP last week.
One of the reasons the Republicans lost is because voters & grass roots have lost faith in NY GOP….
NY GOP have abandoned issues of Less Taxes & Spending and many, many of the Social & 2A issues!
Jim Kelly - NY Conservative Campaigns