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Green Party candidate denounces mailing

Nov 06, 2018 2:30 pm
Rachel Silberstein is reporting for Capitol Confidential on the eve of the mid-term elections, Green Party Congressional candidate Steve Greenfield denounced mailers distributed by the Texas-based, Republican super PAC, “Fight for Tomorrow.” The mailings arrived in mailboxes within the 19th Congressional District one day before the midterm elections and urged Democrats to support Greenfield over Democrat Antonio Delgado. A supporter of Fight for Tomorrow this year is venture capitalist Howard Cox, a major donor to the New York Republican Party and brother of the state GOP chairman Ed Cox. The PAC spent money on two candidates this cycle: Greenfield and an anti-immigrant, pro-life Republican candidate for Congress in Texas who lost in the primary. According to a statement released by Greenfield on November 6, he was "the unwitting, unwilling 'beneficiary' of a Republican PAC in Texas that has delivered $49,000 worth of mailers, robocalls, and social media ads exclusively to registered Democrats..., attacking Antonio Delgado, ..." This expenditure was almost 50 times Greenfield's total advertising budget. He denounced the message and the messengers, making it clear they were not from the Green Party or any PAC that supported his candidacy. Calling the mailing a dirty trick, Greenfield said the piece "deliberately and maliciously misrepresents" him personally, as well as the themes of his campaign. Read the full story at Capitol Confidential, a Times Union blog.