Ballot Box: More Pro-life Primary Victories in New York

Thursday September 16, 2010
By Peter J. Smith
WASHINGTON, D.C.

(LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life candidates (not all of them Tea Partiers) won big Tuesday night in GOP primaries, putting them in competitive or underdog races against pro-abortion challengers in the upcoming November 2 election especially in New York. Here is a look at some of the political landscape for the pro-life movement in the Empire State.

Senate Races: Pro-life Carl Paladino, who won the GOP nomination for New York governor, was not the only Tea Party win to put a pro-life candidate on the state ballot. Pro-life and Tea Party-backed senate candidate Joe DioGuardi beat out his fiscal conservative pro-abortion challengers David Malpass and Bruce Blakeman with 41.6 percent percent of the vote. Malpass came in second with 37.6 percent, followed by Blakeman at 20.7 percent.

DioGuardi served as a GOP Congressional representative from 1985-1988 and has been a certified public accountant for 22 years. DioGuardi also had greater name recognition owing to his daughter Kara being a former judge on the popular TV talent show, American Idol. DioGuardi also received an enthusiastic endorsement from New York State Right to Life for his campaign. the rest