"Does it reflect your values?" the narrator asks. The new ad features a close-up view of Mastriano in the Confederate uniform with a voice over that notes the War College said the photo failed to meet the War College's values. Mastriano, who has not responded to Reuters requests for comment, came under fire from Shapiro, who said it was a "traitor's" uniform that has come to symbolize racism. Mastriano was the only one wearing a Confederate uniform. The photo obtained by Reuters showed Mastriano in a 2013-14 portrait for the Department of Military Strategy, Plans, and Operations, where he worked.įaculty at the time had been given the option of dressing as a historical figure and at least 15 of the 21 faculty in the photo opted to appear in regular attire. The ad features a photo first reported last month of Doug Mastriano, a Donald Trump-backed candidate and state senator, wearing the uniform in a faculty photo at the Army War College.
The governor’s campaign has not aired any ads against the Sex and the City actor.PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro on Wednesday plans to debut a new online ad aimed at Black voters that features his Republican rival posing in a Confederate military uniform, the campaign told Reuters. But she has released several videos on social media, including ones critiquing corruption in state government and the state’s policies on sexual harassment.
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Nixon, running a campaign financed by small donations, has not purchased any TV ads. The ad buy has now concluded.īefore the general election officially begins, Cuomo first faces a primary challenge from actor Cynthia Nixon on September 13. “And now, he’s under investigation again, in another pay to play scandal.”Ĭuomo says the ad is untruthful because the governor has not been implicated in the latest investigation by federal prosecutors of a potential pay to play scandal involving a Hudson Valley health care company.Ĭuomo’s campaign manager sent a cease and desist letter to television stations, but many aired the ad anyway. “Guilty, guilty, gaily,” says the female announcer. The GOP candidate’s spot ties the governor to the recent corruption convictions of several former Cuomo associates on bribery and bid rigging charges, including his former closest aide, Joe Percoco. Meanwhile, Molinaro’s campaign has also been producing some hard hitting ads against Cuomo. She also wanted to devote more time to raising the couple’s three children, one of whom is disabled.Ī spokeswoman for Cuomo’s campaign Abbey Collins, accused Molinaro of having a “meltdown," and says the GOP candidates has “ been busy taking the nepotism page from Trump’s playbook and giving tax breaks to companies with county contracts” and is trying to play New Yorkers for “fools." Molinaro says the Tinkleman Brothers contracts were competitively bid, and that his wife made just $27,000 for directing marketing for the company before leaving earlier this year after she became pregnant.
“My six-month pregnant wife is out of your league.” “You want to fight? Fight with me,” the candidate says, looking into the camera. Molinaro, visibly angry, responded in a video. “Return the dirty money and come clean,” the narrator says in the ad. The company also gave a job to Molinaro’s wife, Corinne. It links $5,000 in campaign donations to Molinaro from a construction company, and tax breaks awarded to the firm, Tinkleman Brothers, by Dutchess County, where Molinaro is the county executive. The governor has said he won’t return the money.īut the GOP candidate became truly enraged over an ad, by the Cuomo campaign, which began airing Tuesday. And Molinaro counters that Cuomo received $64,000 in campaign donations from Trump in past elections. He says the ad is “blatantly false," and can be easily disproved with simple fact checking. The GOP candidate called out Facebook for violating the platform’s new rules against untruthful advertising, by permitting the ad on its site. Molinaro did not vote for Trump in 2016, and has distanced himself from the president. “A Trump mini me for governor?” a deep voiced male narrator asks. In this case, the governor’s first campaign ad mentioning Molinaro links the Republican candidate to President Trump, who is unpopular among many New Yorkers. Molinaro says Cuomo insulted his pregnant wife while the governor’s campaign tried to bar the GOP candidate’s spot on state corruption from airing on television stations.Ĭuomo, who has far more money in his campaign account than Molinaro employed the classic campaign tactic of trying to negatively define an unknown opponent to voters. The end of August used to be considered a slow season in politics, but television ads released by New Tork Governor Andrew Cuomo, and his Republican challenger Marc Molinaro, are getting heated.
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