New York – Democratic Party Leaders In NY Rile Constituents With Threats Of Retaliation If They Don’t Vote

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    FILE - A voter sits in a wheelchair at a booth to fill out a ballot during the Democratic primary election in New York June 24, 2014.  REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz New York – The New York State Democratic Committee is coming under fire after sending out an ill-conceived letter to constituents promising retribution if they don’t show up at the polls next Tuesday.

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    NYPOST.com (http://bit.ly/1ucP83D) reports that the letter, which party members began receiving Wednesday, contains intimidating messages, like, “Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record” and “We will be reviewing voting records . . . to determine whether you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014.”

    According to committee records, the letter was sent to over one million registered New York Democrats who didn’t vote during the last mid-term elections in 2010.

    One political insider said that even members inside the party are critical of the letter, which he called “unnecessary and inappropriate.”

    Recipients of the letter in Manhattan and Brooklyn echoed that sentiment, with one anonymous recipient calling it “ludicrous and menacing.”

    A committee spokesman, Peter Kauffmann, defended the letter, saying it’s “part of a nationwide response” to tactics used by Republicans to enact “voter-suppression.”


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    Rafuel
    Rafuel
    9 years ago

    Yosef Stalin, yimach shmo vzichro, is smiling somewhere.

    9 years ago

    it is your right to VOTE REPUBLICAN IN NOVEMBER – don’t be afraid from the democRATS – they don’t care about you at all

    Yitzchok848
    Yitzchok848
    9 years ago

    VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!

    ralph1527
    ralph1527
    9 years ago

    It’s “business as usual ” around these parts .

    yankee96
    yankee96
    9 years ago

    and yet these low lifes win all the time and control nyc with their progressive/liberal votes