Tedra Cobb, Elise Stefanik's opponent next year in NY-21, apparently has received....

[George II]

....13,000 contributions approaching $400,000 since Stefanik's antics yesterday.

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

1. Jim Jordan's little helper is going to have a challenge. GREAT!

[mgardener]

20. Tedra Cobb challenged last time too.

[George II]

25. Considering the district, she did well - 56.1% to 42.4%.

[riversedge]

30. Hoping for better luck--this time around.

[beachbumbob]

2. many GOP house races are going down in the 2020 blue wave

[in2herbs]

3. This is great news. nt

[Brother Buzz]

4. That's an average of $23 per donor - The average voter is aware and not happy!

[BuffaloJackalope]

5. She can thank her opponents performance at the impeachment hearings.

[Hulk]

6. It figures that is a rural part of New York

Bible thumping, gun hugging country.

[George II]

7. Yes, I was born in NYC and lived a short time outside of Albany....

It's almost like two different states. Plus her district looks like it's about one-third of the entire main part of the state (other than NYC/Long Island) That shows how sparsely populated that area is. Almost all of that district is a state forest reserve.

As you get north or west of Albany it's really right wing territory. Check out this map of the 2016 election by county. Clinton won with 60% of the vote:

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[elleng]

10. VERY large!

Includes most of Adirondack mountains.

Voted Dem for Potus until '16.

[Raftergirl]

16. Hillary won

the parts of NYS where people actually live. Including all the major metro areas of upstate (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany.)

[elleng]

9. NY Dist 21 voted DEM for Potus until '16.

It includes all or parts of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, Warren, and Washington counties. It includes the cities of Ogdensburg, Glens Falls, Plattsburgh and Watertown. The district includes most of the Adirondack Mountains and the Thousand Islands region. It borders Vermont to the east. It also includes Fort Drum of the US army.

From 2003 to 2013, the district contained most of the Capital District of New York. It included all or parts of Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, and Schoharie counties. It contained the cities of Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Amsterdam, Cohoes, Watervliet, Gloversville and Johnstown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York's_21st_congressional_district

[George II]

12. "From 2003 to 2013, the district contained most of the Capital District of New York"...

That's probably why they voted Democratic before 2016. The Albany area is an oasis of Democrats.

[mgardener]

21. So is Clinton County

SUNY Plattsburgh is here.

[Raftergirl]

15. The old 21

was my district until it basically became the 20th and was/is D stronghold. I’ve lived here since 1990 and I’ve never had an R Representative.

The old 20th was Kirsten Gillebrand’s district. The R Congressman before her was one of the gang of Brooks Brother suits who stopped the recount in Florida of Bush/Gore. Most of that district is now the 19th, which flipped to the Dems again in 2018.

[certainot]

26. talk radio, and syracuse uni broadcasts on/endorses/supports 6 linbaaugh stations by

broadcasting sports on them

i'll bet all the local blowhards on those stations will attacking cobb if she looks like a threat, especially ones in and around that district, and they'll be doing it while the stations wave syracuse orange banners

the uni is a good place to protest for that reason. all those stations will lose advertisers if the school starts to discusss the isssue

[Hulk]

27. This is the problem I find with "rural ameriKKKa".....they are indoctrinated!

I drive across the country at least twice a year. Once I leave the large metro areas, the only radio stations available are bible thumping evangelical lunatics and vannity/limpballs or some other asswipe from the reichstag. These people get nothing else to listen to. I feel bad for them, but until we balance the political opinion stations, we are fighting an uphill, impossible battle in the countryside.

[certainot]

29. and thosee 40 states still have 80 senators.... dem party and prog orgs could kill it easy now

because any activism aimed at it should get the ad industry's attention to the fact artificial intelligence suddenly makes it very easy and cheap to digitize talk radio - that means advertisers can be listed and asosciated directly with the racism and global warming denial and trump love. when the ad industry has stop bundling reluctant advertisers looking for a deal and has to start asking clients if they really want to support trump etc - many will flee

the ad industry wants those stations and will force them to start offering alternatives and balance

all it will take is protests at unis, or some boycotts using AI to get their attention. the ccons own 'market demand' will do the rest

[ProudProgressiveNow]

8. KR NT

[smirkymonkey]

11. Donated!

Go Tedra!

[mcar]

13. Excellent news!

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. AND added over 100,000 followers to her Twitter account 24 hours!

Including me.

Good for her.

[Zambero]

17. Just kicked in $15

Stefanik is a walking talking billboard that begs for her seat to be flipped.

[tblue37]

18. LOL! George Conway sent her the maximum donation--because he was so disgusted

by Stefanik's performance yesterday!

Link to tweet

[George II]

19. That's great! I hope all this momentum isn't lost by next November.

[mgardener]

23. I can keep reminding us

If people are interested!

[certainot]

24. the GOP will be piggybacking syracuse football and basketball to attack cobb

6 limbaugh stations depend on SU to keep attracting advertisers to the 6 linmbuagh stations they broadcast sports on.

i'm still trying to find out why limbaugh was demoted off the loudest radio station in colorado - 850 koa - where he's been for 25 years or more - but i do know there was activism around CU buffs broadcasting sports on it.

that was one station - SU supports 6 stations, some of which might broadcast in stefaniks area, but if cobb becomes a threat they might all be used to attack her. the fact stefanik is a strong trump defender is a pretty good indicator she's a dittohead who likely visits some of those stations, or gets her surrogates to

[oasis]

28. Kick for Cobb

[Cha]

35. "Let's Do This for Tedra and America!"

Link to tweet

[Roland99]

31. Over $500k now!

Link to tweet

[Cha]

33. Good to know.. thanks for the update!

[George II]

34. That's amazing. Last year she raised $1.5M to run against Stefanik. This is a huge boost for her.

[Cha]

32. Yes! "Let's do this for Tedra and America!"

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[Gothmog]

36. She has received over $500,000

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. She's up to almost 200K Twitter followers too n/t

[Gothmog]

38. Tedra is up to $650,000

Link to tweet

[Roland99]

39. Over $800k now. Headed to a cool million!

[Gothmog]

40. This makes me smile