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The Democratic Committee of the State of New York, controlled by the two-term governor, paid the pamphlet, which mistakenly claimed that Nixon was supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to put pressure on Israel for its treatment of Palestinians. and accused her of being "silent in the face of the rise of anti-Semitism".
Nixon, who condemned "the growing hate crimes we see against Muslims, Jews, and many other communities" at the end of August, criticized the direct mail in a statement Sunday, calling it "the only one in the world." attack not only my children and my character, but all New Yorkers. "
"The accusation that my family promotes anti-Semitism is deeply offensive," said Nixon, who is raising his two older children in the Jewish religion and attends a synagogue in New York.
She then turned her attention to Cuomo and the State party, accusing them of employing "trump type tactics".
At a press conference Sunday, Mr. Cuomo walked away from the message – calling him "fake" – and criticized the state party's "approval process" before its printing and distribution.
"I did not know the mailer," Cuomo said. "I've heard about the mailer, I have not seen the mailer, the way I've run this campaign, it's been about the problems, it's been positive. mailer was a mistake, I think it was inappropriate. "
Cleanup efforts began a night earlier, when Geoff Berman, the executive director of the state, whose dismissal was requested Sunday in Nixon, tweeted an apology.
"Let me be very clear: this mailing was a mistake and it is inappropriate and it is not the tone that the Democratic Party should set – it will not happen again," he wrote.
Berman also denied signing, and when asked who did it, replied, "I will not go into the internal details of HR on Twitter but the people involved are held accountable.Beat me, we take this to serious."
While Cuomo started speaking on Sunday, Berman tweeted again to announce that the party "will work with the Nixon campaign to send a mailing of their choice to the same universe of people" targeted by the controversial first mailer. We do not know what form it will take.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said on Saturday that he would not approve of a presidential candidate, but has a notoriously trying relationship with Cuomo, condemned the message on Twitter.
"The mail sent by the Democratic Party of New York at the 11th hour, falsely attacking Cynthia Nixon, is unacceptable – it's downright trumpian," said de Blasio. "Tweeting" excuses "calling this a" mistake "are laughable.The State party must immediately compensate the Nixon campaign."
The fury, accentuated by its proximity to Thursday's primary, has exceeded the usual limits of what has been a tumultuous competition between Cuomo, who has the backing of Hillary Clinton, former vice president Joe Biden and the Nationalist Party, and the progressive Nixon insurgency challenge. , which was supported by the progressive Indivisible human rights group and many chapters of the New York-based Social Democratic Democrats.
On Saturday night, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of the Beit Simchat Torah congregation – where Nixon is a member – and his wife, Randi Weingarten, president of the powerful American Federation of Teachers, issued a statement on Facebook condemning the "distorted" advertising.
"While we expect this kind of baseless defamation of the GOP and Trump, it's not our country, our state, or our party that should be," they write. "It's good that Governor Cuomo has given up this tone."
Cuomo leads the race with Nixon by more than 30 percentage points, according to the latest public poll available in July. But he has spent a lot of money in his last weeks, including spending more than $ 8 million over three weeks in August, when Nixon's campaign, which did not broadcast a single television commercial, spent than $ 450,000.
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