NY-23: Hoffman Runs Again

Doug Hoffman, the conservative who threw the political landscape into turmoil last November with an insurgent candidacy in a special House race, has announced he is mounting another campaign to win the upstate New York congressional seat.

When local Republican chairmen passed over Hoffman last fall and selected Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava to seek the seat in New York’s 23rd congressional district, Hoffman declared he was running anyway as on the Conservative Party ticket because he considered Scozzafava too liberal. He quickly gained in the polls, prompting Scozzafava to drop out and endorse the Democrat, Bill Owens. Owens won, capturing a seat held by the GOP for decades.

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