New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he will not offer an endorsement in the tight primary race for New York City comptroller, a contest in which one of Mr. Cuomo’s predecessors and longtime foes, Eliot Spitzer, is seeking to defeat Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.
Both candidates, meanwhile, introduced television advertisements attacking each other.
In a new ad that began airing Thursday afternoon, the Stringer campaign said the candidate “far outdistances Eliot Spitzer in integrity.”
“Spitzer jailed people for prostitution and financial crimes, but when he got caught doing the very same thing, he held himself to a different standard and walked away scot-free,” says the ad, which is set to begin airing on WABC, WNBC and WCBS on Thursday evening, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Spitzer released his own television attack ad, as well as a radio spot saying his opponent cut “a back room deal” to overturn term limit laws.
“Term limits: We voted for them twice to make sure no one in this city could serve more than two terms in office,” the radio ad says. “Until Scott Stringer decided to overturn it. Cutting a back room deal to hand Mayor Bloomberg a third term.”
“Look, it wasn’t just our term limits Scott Stringer took away,” the ad continues. “It was our voice.”
The radio ad will run on radio stations “on African-American radio stations,” said a spokeswoman for the Spitzer campaign.
Spitzer had been counting on lots of support from black voters and had been polling well with that demographic until recently.
Clearly now that he's running an attack against Stringer “on African-American radio stations,” he knows he's losing support within the black community.
Stringer has the unions and the political establishment.
They both have guaranteed GOTV operations.
Spitzer has name recognition and cash.
Some polls still show Spitzer with a lead, but Quinnipiac has Stringer ahead within the margin of error in their LV model.
They're expecting Stringer's voters to come out and some of the people who said they were voting for Spitzer to stay home.
That's a pretty good bet.
I'm going to make prediction based on the last Quinnipiac poll and Spitzer's recent acts of desperation like reaching out the UFT (even though Mulgrew personally attacked him in the summer) and now the attack ad on black radio stations.
Spitzer's going to lose this race.
It will probably be close, but I don't think he's going to pull it out.
Given his actions over the last week or so, Spitzer seems to be thinking the same thing.
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