The Syracuse Post-Standard talks to Dede Scozzafava:
“The amount of hate and lies and the deceitfulness,” she said. “I don’t believe that should be the characteristics that define the Republican Party. I think people should be allowed to have discussions and reasonable disagreements. But this was a full frontal assault on me personally and politically, for weeks.”
The phone calls came in to her office, as they had for weeks, from angry people all over the country.
The ringing overwhelmed her three state government staffers. Scozzafava answered a phone herself.
“There was a man from Oregon,” she said. “We talked for half an hour. In the beginning, he just started lecturing me on the Bible, lecturing me on sin, on liberalism. Finally, I said, ‘How about honesty? How about telling the truth?’”
Meanwhile, the first American to win the New York Marathon since 1982 isn’t really American according to some, because he was born in Eritrea — even though he has been a U.S. citizen for 22 years.
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