Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has a new ad in the NY-23 special election, attacking Democrat Bill Owens for being supported by Speaker Nancy Pelosi — and presenting himself as the alternative to the Democrats.
The on-screen text declares that “Bill owes Nancy,” and the announcer asks: “So when Pelosi wants Owens’ vote for her massive energy taxes, government-run medicine, and a trillion-dollar deficit, where would Bill Owens stand — with you, or with her?”
It’s interesting to see Hoffman going after Owens now, and not the moderate Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava that he’s been focusing on for most of this race but isn’t even mentioned in this ad. With polling data increasingly showing Scozzafava in third place, Hoffman is now acting less like a third-party candidate and more like a conventional Republican nominee, sticking it to the Democrats.
