General News: Republican Website Attacks Randazzo
September 29, 2008
A new website attacking the record of New York State Assembly candidate Richard Randazzo was launched earlier this month by a Republican group in Albany.
The website is set up like a game show. Visitors are asked to answer true or false to questions about Randazzo’s tax record. Several of the issues raised in the game show mirror issues raised by incumbent state assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun in her campaign against Randazzo for the 96th District Assembly seat.
Assemblywoman Calhoun said the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee created the website. The Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee produced much of the campaign material for Democratic candidate Richard Randazzo that is sent to voter's residences. Randazzo's campaign director Jim Kehoe dismissed the website effort, saying that the election is a serious issue, not something to make a game show out of.
One of the issues raised in the website, which also questions Randazzo’s pledge to never take a tax-payer funded trip, is the charge that a complaint was filed against him for deceptive campaign practices with the local, regional, and state League of Women Voters.
However, the New York State League of Women Voters says it doesn’t accept formal complaints about false campaign promises. The League is closely allied with the Fair Campaign Practices Committee, whose chairwoman in the capitol district, Joan Elliott, said that she is not aware of a fair campaign practices committee in Orange County. There is a committee in Westchester County, but it doesn’t cover Orange County either. Those committees will examine statements made by candidates to determine if they are true or not.
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