Dem Ad: Tedisco Asked Judge To Go Easy On Corporate Criminal

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The latest corporate disasters have become the big thing in the March 31 special election for Kirsten Gillibrand’s old House seat, with the Dems now firing back after the Republicans attacked Democratic candidate Scott Murphy’s support for the stimulus bill as tantamount to support for the AIG bonuses.

The DCCC has this new attack ad, going after Republican Jim Tedisco for having written a letter in support of leniency against a businessman convicted in a mortgage-company scandal back in 2003:

“But Tedisco did help a wealthy mortgage executive convicted of millions in fraud — asking the judge to go easy on him,” the announcer says. “Then the convicted felon’s company became one of Tedisco’s top campaign contributors.”

Late Update: A statement from Tedisco spokesman Adam Kramer hits the Democrats right back by pointing to Murphy’s recently-stated total opposition to the death penalty — even if it includes the 9/11 terrorists — and continues to press the attack that Murphy is for the AIG bonuses:

“Discredited attacks will do nothing to reverse the spiral of Wall Street executive Scott Murphy’s campaign. It’s ironic that Washington Democrats would bring up the issue of leniency just days after Murphy made clear that he is opposed to the death penalty for 9/11 terrorists but fine with rewarding failed executives at companies like AIG.”

There is a certain irony in this campaign — the Republican is running as a populist, and the Democrat is being attacked as an out of touch Wall Street executive.

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