As Gillibrand continues to seek and earn endorsements for her election campaign, here's what Sun told the New York Times today:
Tammy Sun, a spokeswoman for Mr. Ford, said Ms. Gillibrand had "already broken her promise not to use underhanded tactics to keep a potential opponent off the ballot, since that's the way her insider friends in Washington and Albany always do it, but it is quite shameful."
In mid-campaign mode, Gillibrand's spokesman Jefrey Pollack fired back, and scored a hit:
Harold Ford wants to have it both ways. The Wall Street executive constantly insults many New York Democrats with name calling and then wonders why these same Democratic leaders are not willing to just hand over their support to him.
While it may be hard for the Wall Street executive to understand, local activists and community organizers in New York are concerned about the economy and jobs, not Harold Ford's personal political ambitions.
The impetus for this back-and-forth is that Gillibrand is likely to earn the endorsements of the Manhattan and Bronx Democratic committees, to go with her earlier endorsement from Queens Democratic committee chairman Rep. Joe Crowley, NY-7.
I've been following this race fairly closely, and I do not recall Gillibrand "promising" that she would not be seeking support from real NY Democrats.
She's in a campaign, and that's what incumbents (and primary challengers) do in campaigns.
There is NOTHING "underhanded" or "shameful" about that.
The fact is Ford does not have support from 25 percent of real NY Democrats, committee members or others, so his rich friends may have to finance petition-gathering for a Democratic primary.
And Sun's lying about and slurring Gillibrand won't change that fact.
Sun could help her candidate by advising him that New Yorkers do not like or respect a multi-millionaire WATB.
Especially when the whining include absurd lies. |
