Republicans should never support a candidate without a clear appreciation for the sanctity of life. Erick – or others – I’ve heard conflicting reports about Corwin’s stance on the abortion issue (and defunding Planned Parenthood) – can anyone speak to her true stance?

I really like Dave also, but good call on Jane. This is the type of bold, supportive, common sense backing that brought me to RS.

Jane has never answered any of the political questions on abortion. But as you noted, she has a pretty good track record on 2nd Amendment Issues, against so-called same-sex marriage, school vouchers, for the death penalty, term limits, tax decreases, etc.

Frankly, based on what I know it’s hard to argue with this choice….

I am one district over from NY-26, and an active member of one of the local Tea Party groups. (I am also a PC, but I know how much my input mattered – nada).
What is annoying about the Corwin pick is not her as much as the process of picking her. There were MANY good, well-known candidates who publicly expressed interest to the Republican leadership. The WNY Tea Party groups received no respect from them.

All that was asked was for some time, or a forum of all the prospective candidates. There have been radio call-in and Facebook campaigns to consider all candidates. Prominent talk shows captured the public sentiment here – that is, this seat belonged to a rich person hand-picked by the leadership, and that’s who gets it again.

Governor Cuomo has not even announced a special election yet. After he does, there will be 90 days before the election – plenty of time for campaigning. There was NO reason to rush this decision. The local R’s leadership were begged to consider everyone, but we know this decision was made within a day, if not hours of Lee’s announcement.

You should also know that there is one so-called Tea Party group locally that is pushing this 3rd party candidate theory. This is NOT the main, larger TP group. This very small group has 2 individuals that keep getting pushed by leftist media as the ‘head’ of the TP here. They will be the ones pushing for another 3rd party candidate. Do I support this? NO. Was it predicted that this is what they would do – well, YES.

I for one will be supporting Corwin. With the big advantage for the R’s in this district, she will win if running just against a Dem. However, our Republican leaders could have avoided this whole possibility of a 3rd candidate if they just gave the illusion of listening to the active Republicans.

Ms. Corwin sounds like she will have a solid, conservative voting record, and most importantly, can keep this seat out of Democrats’ hands.

I get so sick of real conservatives being smeared as RINOs because of one or two minor issues. I’m being facetious here, but I sometimes think various tea party groups are Soros-funded to torpedo conservatives that can actually win elections.

She has run on the conservative party label before

What else do we need?

because they weren’t consulted.

I’m not sure how this particular group operated in the district, but there have been cases where grassroots conservative groups bad-mouthed the local Republicans, activists who had spent years building the Party and working to elect candidates, and then were shocked when they weren’t invited to sit at the head of the table when nominations were handed out.

Now certainly in some of these cases the problem was caused by the inclusion of the loud and obnoxious Paulbots in the movement, which reflected badly on the whole group, perhaps unfairly.

Still, the old wisdom holds true: if you want to borrow your neighbor’s lawnmower, it’s best not to run over his dog first.

Absent any specific reason to oppose Corwin, it’s just sour grapes.