DCCC Vows ‘Unprecedented’ Field Operation Against Michael Grimm
Ross Barkan
If the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has its way, the field operation built to unseat Congressman Michael Grimm will be the most aggressive and sophisticated in the city’s congressional history.
Congressman Steve Israel, a Long Island Democrat and chair of the DCCC, is promising an unprecedented effort to drive out Mr. Grimm, a Republican, and elect his Democratic rival, former Councilman Domenic Recchia.
“To the extent that we do have a financial advantage, it’s going to be spent in two areas: number one, reminding people that their congressman is spending all his time defending himself from indictments and not defending the middle class from an economic squeeze and number two, the most aggressive field program that has ever been implemented in a New York City congressional district,” Mr. Israel told the Observer in a sit-down interview yesterday.
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