Source: Alan Silverleib / CNN
Kathy Hochul, the Democratic clerk of Erie County, swept to victory Tuesday night in the race to fill the U.S. House seat previously held by Republican Chris Lee. Lee, who is married, resigned after it was discovered that he was trying to arrange sexual trysts via the Web site Craigslist.
The real surprise, however, turned out to be Hochul’s ability to capture a seat long considered a GOP stronghold. The Republicans had controlled the district, which stretches roughly from Rochester to Buffalo, for over four decades.
How did Hochul pull it off? There were no exit polls for the race so it’s impossible to say for sure. But the centerpiece of her campaign was a no-holds-barred attack on a plan to overhaul Medicare recently passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Under the plan, originally put forward by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, Medicare would be overhauled starting in 2022. The government would no longer directly pay bills for senior citizens in the program. Instead, recipients would choose a plan from a list of private providers, which the federal government would subsidize.
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