Tea party may fight GOP over Chris Lee’s seat
2012 Elections Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
By Robert J. McCarthy, Buffalo News
Tea party activists, slumbering since last fall’s gubernatorial election, may be awakening and ready to challenge the Republican process for choosing a successor to Christopher J. Lee in the 26th Congressional District.
Rus Thompson of Grand Island, a tea party figure who was active in Carl P. Paladino’s GOP campaign for governor, said Sunday he and others disapprove of the way Republican leaders are rushing toward the nomination of Assemblywoman Jane L. Corwin of Clarence. She remains the GOP front-runner for an anticipated special election stemming from Lee’s Feb. 9 resignation from Congress.
Thompson strongly hinted that the movement might coalesce behind a third-party candidacy by David Bellavia, an Iraq War veteran who mounted a strong effort for the 2008 GOP nomination eventually won by Lee.
“David Bellavia is bound and determined to run a third-party line,” Thompson said Sunday. “Because of the way Republicans have been treating this, people are talking about a third-party line.”
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