Statement from NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions on Election Results
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Statement from NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions on Election Results Washington – National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Pete Sessions today released the following statement regarding the results of the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, as well as the results in Virginia and New Jersey: “The election in New York may provide a momentary victory for Democrats, but the results in two gubernatorial contests tell us more about what 2010 holds in store for the party in power. Despite the unusual circumstances in this race, if we have learned anything from these across-the-board results it is that independent voters are dissatisfied with the direction that Democrats are taking this country and moving away from them at a rapid pace. “Nowhere was this made clearer than in Virginia and New Jersey, where Democrats will be forced to defend a number of House seats in 2010. In Virginia, a state won by President Obama one year ago, independent voters abandoned the Democrat candidate in favor of a Republican with a pro-jobs message. In an illustration of the political toxicity of the Obama-Pelosi agenda, Creigh Deeds was forced to attack his own party’s job-killing cap-and-trade bill in television ads broadcast in the districts of vulnerable Congressional Democrats who supported the measure. “After two special elections in New York, there is no doubt in my mind that the candidate selection process lacks openness and transparency and should be changed to a primary system so voters can have a say in who their respective parties nominate. What’s also clear is that the only meaningful split on display tonight is the growing gap between out-of-touch Democrat policies and the voters that will decide their fate in 2010.”
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