“Her campaign just blatently lied,” said Michael Schenkler, publisher of the Queens Tribune.
Excerpt below:
Queens Tribune: On two occasions over the past several months, I took the Stavisky campaign to task for “being ugly.”
First, when the incumbent Senator turned her back on a couple she had known for years because he was my friend and colleague and I wrote the Senator could lose her reelection race.
Next, when a Stavisky campaign spokesperson attacked her opponent John Messer’s campaign worker, falsely calling him a convicted rapist and attempting to deflect the issue at hand and smear her opponent, resorting to false ugly guilt by association accusation.
Well, now we have Toby Stavisky ugly strike three . . . lying about an endorsement.
There it was on Toby Stavisky’s reelection website under the words “Proudly endorsed by:” on the seventh line . . . “Congressman Gary Ackerman”.
Now I don’t speak for my old friend Gary, nor do I know who he endorses or when, but the Congressman endorsing Toby really surprised me, even though she was the choice of the county organization, as all incumbents are.
So I asked: “Gary, Did you really endorse Toby?”
He responded: “No I did not.”
He continued: “She never asked me, and I’ve not made an endorsement in this race.”
I’m not going to talk about the relationship between Toby and Gary, but as a longtime observer, there is no way she could have assumed Gary would be with her.
Her campaign just blatantly lied.
No surprise, they’ve been pretty ugly so far.
Strike three.
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