![‘Shove it’: A portrait of a gay-marriage Republican in limbo
“The biggest reason we got behind Kathy wasn’t necessarily how he voted [on same-sex marriage], was why he voted, and raised all that money from downstate interests,” said Ben Potiker, head of the Upstate Conservative Coalition and a resident of Halfmoon, a suburb that constitutes Marchione’s base. “We felt he wasn’t representing the interests of people in my districts.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_manoaso9k41qc0o3ko1_400.png)
‘Shove it’: A portrait of a gay-marriage Republican in limbo
“The biggest reason we got behind Kathy wasn’t necessarily how he voted [on same-sex marriage], was why he voted, and raised all that money from downstate interests,” said Ben Potiker, head of the Upstate Conservative Coalition and a resident of Halfmoon, a suburb that constitutes Marchione’s base. “We felt he wasn’t representing the interests of people in my districts.”
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