League of Women Voters Calls Out Nick Spano for Cheating, Lying

Written by: Alan Goldston on Oct 6, 2006 4:33 PM EDT

You know 20-year incumbent Nick Spano must be desperate when even the strictly non-partisan League of Women Voters finds that he's cheating, with false and deceptive advertising.

In his effort to hold on against challenger (and DFW endorsee) Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Spano tried, by direct mail and TV ads, to tag Stewart-Cousins with responsibility for the controversial relocation of a homeless shelter to a spot within the 35th Senatorial district. Now the Fair Campaign Practices Committee of the universally respected League of Women Voters has determined that Spano's ads were "unfair, misleading, and inflammatory." The shelter in question was not only not within Stewart-Cousins' County legislative district, it wasn't even subject to any vote of the Board of County Legislators, all of which Spano certainly knew. In short, with his deceptive and inflammatory advertising, Nick Spano tried to con the public into blaming Stewart-Cousins for something that actually happened within Spano's legislative district, and on his watch.

This might all be surprising if we forgot, for a moment, that Spano takes his campaign strategy and tactics straight from the Republican book of foul plays and dirty tricks. We deserve better than Nick Spano, but we'll have to earn it to make it so.

The 35th Senatorial District deserves to be represented by an honest Democrat, and New York deserves a Democratic State Senate. That is why Democracy for Westchester proudly stands with Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and urges all of its members to give both money and time to help her campaign bring Democracy to the 35th District, and New York into the 21st century.

This race is likely to be close, and your involvement could really make a difference. To donate $5, $500 or $5000, go NOW to www.andrea2006.com/donate.... To sign up as a volunteer, even if its only for an hour or two, go to www.andrea2006.com/actioncenter....

Alan Goldston, Chair
Democracy for Westchester

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