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Brooklyn primary candidate in N.Y. Assembly race says 'negrohood' mailer was just a 'typo'
An Assembly candidate whose campaign sent mailers using the word negrohood to residents in his Sheepshead Bay district apologized Wednesday calling the racially tinged language a typo.
As the candidate, I take full responsibility for this inadvertent error and I am sorry to anyone who was offended by it, Ben Akselrod, whos running in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary against Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, said in a statement.
The Friends of Ben Akselrod sent the mailers last week, claiming that his opponent has allowed crime to go up over 50% in our negrohood so far this year.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-pol-negrohood-mailer-a-typo-article-1.1147632#ixzz253n8TAbM
An Assembly candidate whose campaign sent mailers using the word negrohood to residents in his Sheepshead Bay district apologized Wednesday calling the racially tinged language a typo.
As the candidate, I take full responsibility for this inadvertent error and I am sorry to anyone who was offended by it, Ben Akselrod, whos running in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary against Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, said in a statement.
The Friends of Ben Akselrod sent the mailers last week, claiming that his opponent has allowed crime to go up over 50% in our negrohood so far this year.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-pol-negrohood-mailer-a-typo-article-1.1147632#ixzz253n8TAbM
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<Facepalm> And this guy's not even a Republican... (Original Post)
cthulu2016
Aug 2012
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lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)1. This smells of campaign ratfucking - n/t
EC
(12,287 posts)2. Sounds like
Sabotage. I don't like seeing this between two Dems...one must be a fake.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)3. how do you "typo" negrohood out of neighborhood
lob1
(3,820 posts)4. Negrohood...neighborhood. That's not a typo,
that's a bunch of typos plus a brain freeze. Who believes that crap?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)5. "negrohood"? WTF is THAT supposed to mean?
I don't know, but it certainly doesn't sound right on any level.