Laura Italiano is reporting for the New York Post last-minute campaign mailings from the New York State Democratic Committee implying that gubernatorial primary candidate Cynthia Nixon is anti-Semitic prompted online expressions of outrage and denials September 8. Nixon's opponent, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the state party responded, calling the mailer a “mistake.” The mailer, paid for by the state Democrats, stated, “With anti-Semitism and bigotry on the rise, we can’t take a chance with inexperienced Cynthia Nixon.” The mailer also accused Nixon of being against the funding of yeshivas and falsely accused her of being “silent on the rise of anti-Semitism” and of supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. Cuomo spokeswoman Lis Smith tweeted that the governor “didn’t approve of or have any knowledge of the mailer.” The committee’s executive director, Geoff Berman, later tweeted the mailer was “a mistake and is inappropriate.” In a September 9 press release, Nixon, who is raising two Jewish children, said, “This is an attack not only on my children and my character, but on all New Yorkers. It’s sickening, at a time when anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and other hate crimes are on the rise, to exploit people’s real fears like this..." She then called for Berman to be fired and demanded that new mailers be sent out to correct the record, as soon as possible.