What Did The White House Give Dede Scozzafava For Her Endorsement?

This morning the Huffington Post reported earlier today, that the White House wanted Dede Scozzafava to endorse her former democratic opponent in the NY 23 election, in the worst way:

In the White House, at the very least, officials are bracing themselves for a loss, calling Scozzafava's departure bad news for Owens. The one hope, they say, is if Scozzafava -- who has more philosophical similarities with the Democratic Party than Hoffman's brand of Republicanism -- was to formally endorse her former rival.

"This hurts," one administration official told the Huffington Post on Saturday, "unless we can get her on board."

And on Sunday, the White House all but confirmed that it was after Scozzafava's endorsement. Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Obama's senior confidant, Valerie Jarrett said the administration "would love to have -- of course, have her support."

By now the news is out that Scozzafava gave the endorsement Capital Hill newspaper, The Hill, reports that that the White House did get the endorsement...in the worst way:

Rep. Issa's PAC suggests Dems promised Scozzafava favors
By Tony Romm - 11/01/09 06:29 PM ET

One Republican's political action committee on Sunday suggested Democrats enticed former Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava with "favors" in return for her endorsement of the race's remaining Democratic challenger.

In a fundraising pitch to supporters this afternoon, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) through IssaPAC railed on Scozzafava for choosing to support Bill Owens over Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate who effectively forced her out of the race on Saturday.


Issa also called on Republicans to donate promptly to Hoffman's war chest so that the party writ large could "send a message to Barack Obama that he can't buy this election."

Just hours before [Scozzafava] endorsed the Democrat, she received calls from Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. She also received calls from the Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Senator Chuck Schumer," Issa wrote. "Was Scozzafava promised something in return for her endorsement of the Democrat? Time will tell."

Democrats, however, questioned the merits of Issa's statement. A spokesperson at the DSCC this evening corrected the congressman's line -- Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) now heads the organization, not Schumer -- and noted that the DSCC was not playing a role in the House race.

Nevertheless, Issa's letter is significant, seeing as he switched his endorsement from Scozzafava to Hoffman last week. He also mailed Hoffman a check for $5,000 on Friday -- a day before Scozzafava announced she was exiting the race.

"Doug Hoffman is a Ronald Reagan conservative that has received endorsements from conservative leaders all over the country including conservative New York Republicans like former Governor George Pataki, but most important, he has the endorsement of conservative Republican voters in his own district," Issa said in his endorsement.

"Recent polls show that the race between Doug and the liberal Democrat are neck and neck, but Doug has been steadily gaining for weeks now. He is running the kind of campaign that our help can put over the top," he added.

Sadly the press has been misrepresenting Scozzavafa and the effort to elect Hoffman.

She is being falsely painted as a moderate, and Hoffman's supporters are falsely painted as crazy radicals even on Fox.   Reporters keep saying that people are supporting Hoffman instead of Dede because of her stands on Abortion and Gay Marriage. It is so much more than that, she has liberal stances on card check, porkulus and the public option of Obamacare.  Many of the people in the tea party movement are pro-life, but it is fiscal responsibility and personal liberty that drive the tea party movement, Dede Scozzafava  fails on both points.