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Attacks fly among Democrats in 'Rove-styled' House primary
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason May 08, 2012 09:23pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, May 9, 2012 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In a rare joint statement, two Democrats opposing each other in a House primary in Arizona came together Tuesday to blast a third Democrat for lobbying "Karl Rove-styled attacks" and demand that he end what they described as a pattern of underhanded campaigning.
The third Democrat shot back, dispatching top allies to accuse his opponents of using race to divide the party's voter base.
State Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and state Senate Minority Leader David Schapira called on Andrei Cherny, a former Clinton aide, to "end his brand of sleazy campaigning and focus on the real issues."
"We are calling on Andrei Cherny to stop his Karl Rove-styled attacks and asking him to join us in running an issue-focused campaign for the Democratic nomination," Sinema and Schapira wrote Tuesday.
The rebuke followed a flare-up over campaign mailers Cherny sent during a 2002 race that offended fellow Democrats. After initially defending the mailers, Cherny apologized Monday for the flyers, which used a photograph of a tattooed African American with a gun to suggest that voters would be unsafe under Cherny's opponent. |
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