Lancman Campaign Calls for Meng Campaign Aide to Be Fired
Following City & State‘s report that a top operative to Assemblywoman Grace Meng’s campaign, Michael Nussbaum, encouraged an additional Jewish candidate to get into the race, the campaign of one of Ms. Meng’s rivals, Assemblyman Rory Lancman, directly accused her of a deliberative scheme to split the district’s Jewish vote and called for the situation to be starkly rectified.
“Today, the Meng campaign has been caught red-handed in one of the most malicious schemes any of us have ever seen: an outrageous ploy to deceive Jewish voters with a fraudulent candidate designed to manipulate the electoral process in her favor,” Mr. Lancman’s campaign manager Mark Benoit said in a statement. “Based on today’s revelations, Grace Meng owes the voters an apology for concocting this sham, and Grace Meng should fire her main campaign operative Michael Nussbaum for his role in perpetrating this fraud.” Read More
