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Dede Scozzafava

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Dierdre Kathryn "Dede" Scozzafava (born April 28, 1960) is an American politician in New York. [1]

75 relations: Abortion, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Andrew Cuomo, Bachelor of Science, Bill Owens (New York politician), Boston University, Buffalo, New York, Bush tax cuts, Canton (village), New York, Card check, Chloe Ann O'Neil, Chuck Schumer, Clarkson University, Clifford W. Crouch, Congressional Quarterly, Conservative Party of New York State, Cultural liberalism, Darrel Aubertine, Democratic Party (United States), Doug Hoffman, Emissions trading, Financial adviser, Fred Thompson, Gouverneur (village), New York, Governor of New York, Independence Party of New York, John M. McHugh, Ken Blankenbush, Lewis County, New York, Log Cabin Republicans, Long Island, Los Angeles Times, Maggie Gallagher, Master of Business Administration, Methodism, Modern liberalism in the United States, National Organization for Marriage, National Rifle Association, New York (state), New York State Assembly, New York State Senate, New York State United Teachers, New York's 23rd congressional district, New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009, Newsday, Newt Gingrich, North Country (New York), Oswego County, New York, Peter T. King, Planned Parenthood, ..., Politician, Politico, Public health insurance option, Questrom School of Business, Republican National Committee, Republican Party (United States), Roy J. McDonald, Same-sex marriage in the United States, Sarah Palin, Sheldon Silver, St. Lawrence County, New York, Steve Israel, Tea Party movement, The New York Times, The Post-Standard, The Washington Post, Tim Pawlenty, Times Union (Albany), Trade union, United States, United States Secretary of the Army, Vice President of the United States, Watertown (city), New York, William Barclay (New York politician), WWNY-TV. Expand index (25 more) »

Abortion

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009.

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Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957) is an American politician, author, and lawyer serving as the 56th and current Governor of New York, since 2011.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (Latin Baccalaureus Scientiae, B.S., BS, B.Sc., BSc, or B.Sc; or, less commonly, S.B., SB, or Sc.B., from the equivalent Latin Scientiae Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years, or a person holding such a degree.

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Bill Owens (New York politician)

William Lewis Owens (born January 20, 1949) is a former U.S. Representative for New York, a post he held from 2009 to 2015.

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Boston University

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Bush tax cuts

The phrase Bush tax cuts refers to changes to the United States tax code passed originally during the presidency of George W. Bush and extended during the presidency of Barack Obama, through.

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Canton (village), New York

Canton is a village in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States.

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Card check

Card check (also called majority sign-up) is a method for employees to organize into a labor union in which a majority of employees in a bargaining unit sign authorization forms, or "cards", stating they wish to be represented by the union.

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Chloe Ann O'Neil

Chloe Ann O'Neil (born September 7, 1943) is an American politician from New York.

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Chuck Schumer

Charles Ellis Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is an American politician of the Democratic Party serving as the senior United States Senator from New York, a seat he was first elected to in 1998.

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Clarkson University

Clarkson University is a private research university with its main campus located in Potsdam, New York, and additional graduate program and research facilities in New York State's Capital Region and Beacon, N.Y. It was founded in 1896 and has an enrollment of about 4,300 students studying toward bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in each of its schools or institutes: the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, the School of Arts & Sciences, the School of Business and the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering.

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Clifford W. Crouch

Clifford W. "Cliff" Crouch (born May 7, 1945) is a Republican member of the New York State Assembly for the 122nd district.

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Congressional Quarterly

Congressional Quarterly, Inc., or CQ, is part of a privately owned publishing company called CQ Roll Call that produces a number of publications reporting primarily on the United States Congress.

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Conservative Party of New York State

The Conservative Party of New York State is a political party in the United States founded in 1962 and active in the State of New York.

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Cultural liberalism

Cultural liberalism is a liberal view of society that stresses the freedom of individuals from cultural norms and in the words of Thoreau is often expressed as the right to "march to the beat of a different drummer".

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Darrel Aubertine

Darrel J. Aubertine (born June 3, 1953) was a member of the New York State Senate for the 48th district, which covers Central New York and the North Country region counties of Oswego, Jefferson and St.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Doug Hoffman

Douglas L. "Doug" Hoffman (born 1953) is an American businessman, accountant and former congressional candidate.

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Emissions trading

Emissions trading, or cap and trade, is a government, market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.

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Financial adviser

A financial adviser is a professional who suggests and renders financial services to clients based on their financial situation.

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Fred Thompson

Freddie Dalton Thompson (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, film and television actor, and radio host.

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Gouverneur (village), New York

Gouverneur is a village in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States.

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Governor of New York

The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the U.S. state of New York.

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Independence Party of New York

The Independence Party is an affiliate in the U.S. state of New York of the Independence Party of America.

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John M. McHugh

John Michael McHugh (born September 29, 1948) is an American politician from the U.S. state of New York who served as the 21st United States Secretary of the Army, and represented the state's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

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Ken Blankenbush

Kenneth D. "Ken" Blankenbush (born September 14, 1947) is an American politician and a Republican member of the New York State Assembly.

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Lewis County, New York

Lewis County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York.

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Log Cabin Republicans

The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) is an organization that works within the Republican Party to advocate equal rights for LGBT people in the United States.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Maggie Gallagher

Margaret Gallagher (born September 14, 1960), better known by her working name Maggie Gallagher, is an American writer and socially conservative commentator.

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Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration (MBA or M.B.A.) is a master's degree in business administration (management).

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Modern liberalism in the United States

Modern American liberalism is the dominant version of liberalism in the United States.

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National Organization for Marriage

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is an American non-profit political organization established in 2007 to work against the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.

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National Rifle Association

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York State Assembly

The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, the New York State Senate being the upper house.

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New York State Senate

The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature, the New York State Assembly being the lower house.

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New York State United Teachers

New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) is a 600,000-member New York state teachers union, affiliated since 2006 with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the AFL-CIO, and the National Education Association (NEA).

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New York's 23rd congressional district

The 23rd Congressional District of New York is represented by Republican Tom Reed of Corning.

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New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009

The 2009 special election for New York's 23rd congressional district was held on November 3, 2009, to select the successor to Republican John M. McHugh.

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Newsday

Newsday is an American daily newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Newt Gingrich

Newton Leroy Gingrich (né McPherson; born June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author, born in Pennsylvania, later representing Georgia in Congress, and ultimately serving as 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.

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North Country (New York)

The North Country is a region of the U.S. state of New York that encompasses the state's extreme northern frontier, bordering Lake Ontario on the west, the Saint Lawrence River and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec on the north and northwest, and Lake Champlain and Vermont on the east.

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Oswego County, New York

Oswego County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Peter T. King

Peter Thomas King (born April 5, 1944) is an American politician and current U.S. Representative for.

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Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally.

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Politician

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.

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Politico

Politico, known earlier as The Politico, is an American political journalism company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally.

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Public health insurance option

The public health insurance option, also known as the public insurance option or the public option, is a proposal to create a government-run health insurance agency that would compete with other private health insurance companies within the United States.

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Questrom School of Business

The Questrom School of Business (formerly, the Boston University School of Management) is the business school at Boston University in Boston, MA, USA.

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Republican National Committee

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is a U.S. political committee that provides national leadership for the Republican Party of the United States.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Roy J. McDonald

Roy J. McDonald (born April 12, 1947) is a Republican politician and former member of the New York State Legislature who represented the 43rd District in the New York State Senate (which included all of Rensselaer and part of Saratoga County) and represented Districts 112 and 100 in the New York State Assembly.

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Same-sex marriage in the United States

Same-sex marriage in the United States was initially established on a state-by-state basis, expanding from 1 state in 2004 to 36 states in 2015, when, on June 26, 2015, same-sex marriage was established in all 50 states as a result of the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in the landmark civil rights case of Obergefell v. Hodges, in which it was held that the right of same-sex couples to marry on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples, with all the accompanying rights and responsibilities, is guaranteed by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Sarah Palin

Sarah Louise Palin (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality, who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009.

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Sheldon Silver

Sheldon "Shelly" Silver (born February 13, 1944) is a former lawyer and Democratic Party politician from New York City who served as Speaker of the New York State Assembly from 1994 until 2015.

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St. Lawrence County, New York

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Steve Israel

Steven J. Israel (born May 30, 1958) is a former United States Representative for, serving in the United States Congress from 2001 to 2017.

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Tea Party movement

The Tea Party movement is an American conservative movement within the Republican Party.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Post-Standard

The Post-Standard is a major newspaper serving the greater Syracuse, New York metro area.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tim Pawlenty

Timothy James Pawlenty (born November 27, 1960) is an American businessman and politician who is president and CEO of Financial Services Roundtable, a Washington, D.C.-based industry advocacy group.

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Times Union (Albany)

The Times Union is an American daily newspaper, serving the Capital Region of New York.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Secretary of the Army

The Secretary of the Army (SA, SECARM or SECARMY) is a senior civilian official within the Department of Defense of the United States of America with statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and equipment acquisition, communications, and financial management.

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Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution, as well as the second highest executive branch officer, after the President of the United States.

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Watertown (city), New York

Watertown is a city in the state of New York and the county seat of Jefferson County.

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William Barclay (New York politician)

William A. "Will" Barclay (born January 5, 1969) is a Republican member of the New York State Assembly representing the 120th Assembly District, which includes Oswego, New York and portions of Onondaga, Jefferson and Oswego counties.

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WWNY-TV

WWNY-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Carthage, New York, United States and serving Watertown and upstate New York's North Country.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dede_Scozzafava

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