Monroe – Kiryas Yoel’s ruling party appears to have launched an 11th-hour sly campaign blitz loaded with dark humor and deep irony to re-elect their allies on the Monroe Town Board, which surpasses in ingenuity an earlier effort to sink a Monroe village board candidate with a similar “kiss-of-death” strategy.
Monroe residents going to the polls yesterday have gotten recorded phone messages and fliers intended to drive voters away from the challengers that Kiryas Yoel’s leadership must regard as the incumbents’ biggest threat: the Democrats.
“Vote Republican, Get ‘KJ,’ ” reads one flier handed out at polling stations today. “Vote Democrat, Get ‘KJ-Lite’ ” Kiryas Yoel’s leaders, recognizing their community’s unpopularity with Monroe voters, have the political savvy and mordant humor to use that reputation to try to hinder the Democrats, one of two slates vying to unseat three longtime Republican board members.
Kiryas Yoel Administrator couldn’t be reached so far today to discuss the sly campaign.
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