The Associated Press is reporting that an attempt by Dutchess County Democratic officials to create a website attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate Marcus Molinaro backfired after he bought the site and reconfigured it to redirect traffic to another website. The Dutchess Democratic Committee created the website MolinarosShadyDeals [dot] com to collect anonymous accusations against the Dutchess County executive. But the local party never paid for the site's URL, making it easy for Molinaro's campaign to purchase the site on October 1. The Republican's campaign then altered the page to redirect online readers to Cuomoleaks [dot] com, a website Molinaro's campaign created to solicit anonymous accusations against incumbent Democrat Andrew M. Cuomo. The two campaigns have each accused the other candidate of corruption and of giving government contracts to political donors. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.