The NRCC is so confident in its candidate for the open seat in Arizona’s First District, friend-of-Alan-Keyes and all-around nutjob Sydney Hay, that it has decided to let her win the campaign on her own.
Karen Hanretty, communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the group believes Sydney Hay is a strong candidate who could win the seat without the committee’s financial backing.
“We don’t need to spend resources on all of these races, and simply because some are strong enough to sustain a victory without our financial assistance,” Hanretty said. “And we’re certainly hoping that’s the case in that district.”
This is the same Sydney Hay who was low on the party’s wish list of candidates after stronger candidates took a pass, who barely won her primary against a field of nobodies, who’s trying to succeed scandal-plagued Rick Renzi in an R+2 district, and who’s up against former State Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who’s the recipient of a $1.7 million ad reservation by the DCCC.
Hay spokesperson Ron Tyler has a slightly different version of the events than the NRCC:
“There’s been communication and hope, and I don’t think they’ve specifically said no, but so far we haven’t had the check written or the commitment made,” he said. “We still have our prayers that somehow they’ll hear and answer and send us some money.”
It seems that the Hay campaign doesn’t want to admit what most of America already knows: that you can’t look to Republicans for help!
http://www.surveyusa.com/clien…
Only 11% watched it, so it probably won’t have much impact on the race
Those who did watch it were split.
I think they might actually be deluded enough to think that Hays is in the position to win this thing.
Or, at least last cycle, they were honest when they were leaving candidates in front of the firewall.