Upstate GOPers Call On Blakeman To Drop US Senate Bid (Updated)

Sour grapes and some what lost?
I don't understand, nevertheless, they will all be on board with DioGuardi very soon.

Congressman Joe DioGuardi is leading in all polls over Blakeman & Malpass for the upcoming GOP Primary.

DioGuardi 24% – Blakeman 7% & Malpass is waaay in the rear at 5%.

DioGuardi is going to win the GOP Primary and already has the Conservative Party Line, hence the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of votes Malpass & Blakeman will NEVER obtain.

GOP Chairs will learn that DioGuardi has the message and is going to win.

Jim, the real problem with DioGuardi is his age and his less than conservative record when he served in Congress. Blakeman discusses those DioGuardi weakness in a recent radio interview.

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The Big8 ran dioGuardi for Congress to sabotage tax reform to avoid reductions in CPA fees. Where did the poor Albanians find the $400,000 per year they pay DioGuardi as their lobbyist? Would 9/11 hve happened if it were not for DioGuardi's support for Albanian and bosnian terrorist links?

New York Times December 21, 1985 A26 Narrow regional interest dictated a lot of votes against the big tax-revision bill that the House has finally approved. . . 12 New York and 2 New Jersey Republicans who voted against the measure. . . It would preserve deductibility of state and local taxes. . . It would continue tax exemption of industrial development bonds . . . the following, all Republicans, were still in opposition: NEW YORK: Sherwood Boehlert, William Carney, Joseph DioGuardi, Fred Eckert, Hamilton Fish, Benjamin Gilman, Bill Green, Frank Horton, David Martin, Guy Molinari, Gerald Solomon and George Wortley.

AP August 10, 1984, By JIM LUTHER, The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, whose members make a living handling tax matters, questioned the assumption that the tax law needs radical surgery. The accountants said laws passed since 1974 will produce considerable amounts of equity and simplicity once they and the regulations that interpret them are fully in effect.
Allen B. Ellentuck, chairman of the CPA association's tax division, was especially critical of the notion that a flat tax will result in simplicity for the average taxpayer. “Those expenses which now commonly appear on tax returns of most middle-income taxpayers would continue to be deductible under prominent flat-tax proposals,” he said. And most flat-tax proposals would require that various tax-exempt items _ such as worker fringe benefits _ be reported as taxable income. To obtain even a degree of simplicity, Ellentuck added, the flat tax would do away with the present progressive rate structure that takes a bigger bite as income increases.

March 8, 1984, Joseph J. DioGuardi, 43, a partner in Arthur Andersen & Co., one of the ''Big Eight'' international accounting and consulting firms, will leave the firm on March 31 to enter the race for the 20th Congressional . . . ''He has distinguished himself in the areas in which he has had firmwide responsibility, namely the tax aspects of nonprofit organizations, the public sector and charitable giving,'' the statement continued.

September 26, 1984 AP DioGuardi made the remarks during a candidate's forum Sunday morning at the Jewish Community Center in White Plains. In a tape recording of the Sunday appearance, DioGuardi is heard saying, “You've got to look at the facts. The facts are that the minority groups in this country enjoy having children. It's their only joy, their only hope. It gets them another check. They're not going to have the abortions.”

May 24, 1989, WASHINGTON, D.C., PRN During his tenure in Congress, DioGuardi has championed the civil rights of the Kosovar Albanians to the highest levels of American government. Time and again, he has stated the case for Kosovar Albanian internal autonomy. DioGuardi formed the Albanian-American Civic League in Washington, D.C. in early 1989

October 4, 1992, AP Joseph J. DioGuardi, who is seeking election to a House seat he lost amid charges of campaign finance irregularities, tried to avoid paying taxes through an investment scheme designed to lose money, according to U.S. Tax Court records . . . In 1978, DioGuardi was a partner in Daga Financial Co., which bought and sold options and futures on stocks and securities, according to court papers. On their joint tax return for that year, DioGuardi and his wife reported a loss of $ 112,453 from Joseph DioGuardi's 24.4 percent share of Daga, according to the records. So even though DioGuardi had earned more than $ 124,000 as an accountant that year, he and his wife claimed taxable income of $ 9,323, the records show. But the IRS said Daga's 1978 losses could not be deducted because “the entire transaction lacked economic reality.” . . . In 1988, Lowey ousted DioGuardi after a report that Joseph Crabtree, the head of DioGuardi's campaign finance committee, had funneled more than $ 50,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign through his numerous auto dealerships. Crabtree reimbursed employees for the contributions, which is illegal. Crabtree said DioGuardi masterminded the plan; the ex-congressman denied it. Crabtree eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate federal election and tax laws.

Guardian March 25, 1997 anti-Mafia judges from around Italy met in Bari, the administrative centre of the southern Puglia region, to discuss the growing links between Albanian and local gangsters. There is concern that, with many Albanians also landing unchecked in isolated coves, the exodus will set back “by years” the progress made in tackling organised crime.

Deutsche Presse-Agentur April 12, 1997 Foreign troops deployed in Albania will not be restricted to shooting in self defence, Italian Defence Minister Beniamino Andreatta said Saturday in Tirana. . . Andreatta made it clear that the force – about 6,000 strong and from Italy, France, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Romania, Turkey and Austria – would remain in Albania for a maximum of six months.

Deutsche Presse-Agentur March 4, 1997 The worsening crisis in Albania jumped to the top of the European Union's political agenda on Tuesday but officials said the bloc would wait until a meeting of E.U. political directors on March 6 before taking any joint initiatives to try and quell the unrest. “We are urging all parties, including the opposition in Albania, to restore calm and to abstain from using the situation for political gain,” an E.U. official said.

The Guardian March 25, 1997 A COALITION of European Union countries, led by Italy, is ready to despatch 3,000 troops and police to protect a huge international humanitarian mission to Albania. But the Albanian leader, Sali Berisha, said this morning that he could not guarantee the safety of humanitarian aid convoys.

IPS-Inter Press Service May 16, 1997, Friday Although both Albanian president Sali Berisha and prime minister Bashkim Fino called for the force, they did so for entirely different purposes. Originally Berisha requested it to help restore order against “the southern rebels and their threat to the north.” In contrast, Fino wanted it to restore some form of stability. Given that the armed insurgents in the north and south have only one political agenda, the removal of Berisha, the international community wisely took the most politically neutral goal available — securing humanitarian aid. . . Italy's center-left coalition government has traditionally been very supportive of Berisha. However, as the situation deteriorated in Albania and the army began to defect from Berisha's camp, the world community, led by the United States, called for the Albanian president to step down. By early March, even Italy, the major pro-Berisha member of the EU, had begun to distance itself from him.

Toronto Star March 4, 1997 AP Meanwhile, the legislature easily re-elected President Sali Berisha to a five-year term. “Today is the day of open dictatorship in Albania,” said Neritan Ceka, the head of the opposition Democratic Alliance. “Only a dictator could be elected under such conditions, with martial law.”