Borough President Melinda Katz announcing her run for Queens District Attorney on Dec. 4 (via Katz for DA)
July 10, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan
The Melinda Katz campaign team says that their candidate has received a raft of angry attacks on social media and are alleging that it is the result of Tiffany Cabán’s “reckless campaign tactics.”
Katz’ criticism comes as the second day of the manual ballot recount is underway in the highly combative Queens District Attorney race. Going into the recount, Katz held a mere 16 vote lead against political newcomer and insurgent candidate Cabán. The two candidates are vying neck-and-neck to replace long-serving District Attorney Richard A Brown who died in May of this year.
The Katz campaign sent out an email to supporters earlier today displaying several tweets sent to the Borough President, ranging from expletive-riddled put downs to accusations of election fraud.
Katz campaign spokesperson Matthew Rey called the tweets, which were not sent by anyone affiliated with the Cabán team, the result of “the Cabán campaign’s persistent efforts to portray a rigged electoral system.”
“The increasing recklessness of the Cabán campaign is deeply troubling for a candidate running for the borough’s top law enforcement job,” Rey said. “Tiffany Cabán’s supporters have been issuing veiled threats of violence and invoking Melinda Katz’ children in a continuing tide of menacing online attacks. This, as the campaign itself continues to try to undermine confidence in the electoral process and manipulate the recount.”
Rey asked Cabán to publicly condemn the behavior and “get her campaign under control.”
None of the tweets shared in the Katz Campaign email, however, make any reference to Cabán.
Sampling of a Twitter attack on Katz Source: Katz campaign
The Cabán campaign, who say they have also been on the receiving end of hateful tweets, argue that the attention being placed on the social media backlash is a distraction from the ongoing recount and pending court case concerning the validity of 114 affidavit ballots.
“We condemn these hateful comments that have nothing to do with our campaign and have no place in political debate,” said a spokesperson for the Cabán campaign. “While we condemn these nasty tweets, the fact remains that the Katz campaign refuses to join us in making sure Queens voters are not disenfranchised. Our campaign will be at the Board of Elections every day and in court to make sure the outcome of this election is fair, and we welcome the Katz campaign to log off Twitter and join us.”
Sampling of a Twitter attack on Katz
Source: Katz campaign
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Katz campaign trying to deflect from the fact that they are stealing the election, with these groundless complaints about Caban campaign.
The fact that Joe Crowley’s attorneys Bolz and Reich are “donating” their time to Katz campaign, and that Reich, Crowley and Bolz appointed all the Board of Election workers in Queens, and that those workers decided which votes to keep, or toss out etc. Reich, Bolz, Crowley family have made tens of millions of dollars through their control of courts in Queens – and they are fighting to get Katz in, so they can continue their corruption. Also Crowley wants one of his family members to take Katz’s place as Queens Borough President. Election fraud , tampering, and more will put them in jail, since they opened this can of worms. Everyone in Queens politics knows that Bolz and Reich have been tampering with elections for decades, and that is the only reason Joe Crowley stayed in Congress, not on his abilities or talents.
Katz campaign is absurdly corrupt – simply why are the Crowley attorneys Bolz and Reich defending her for free?
What do they have to gain? This is worse than what Russia’s interference in Trump’s election?
The Board of Elections staff is bi-partisan — it consists of Democrats and Republicans. Each recount table has a Democrat and a Republican worker, in addition to people from both the Cabán and Katz campaigns. Plus the lawyers for both camps and other public observers are in the room each day of the recount. And the media is watching and reporting too. On top of that, the Judge overseeing the recount was brought in from Brooklyn and is a gubernatorial appointee.
So your Crowley-obsessive posts (made under various names on other Queens Posts sites) and your conspiracy friends are just spreading lies and sowing mistrust in our election process and in the government in general.
You mentioned Russia. Maybe you’re from there?