A mailer Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., claimed to have no knowledge of has progressive opponent Cynthia Nixon, a former "Sex in the City" star, crying "bogus" and rebuking it as "dirty, sleazy politics at its worst," as BuzzFeed News reported Monday.
"The idea that Andrew Cuomo didn't know that it was happening is completely bogus," Nixon told BuzzFeed News' "AM to DM."
The mailer, sent just days before Thursday's primary, accused Nixon of being soft on anti-Semitism, and Gov. Cuomo subsequently denounced the attack, calling the mailer a "mistake," and claiming he had no knowledge of it.
"I was appalled – I was angry," Nixon said. "I'm the mother of Jewish children whose grandparents narrowly survived the Jewish holocaust and had a lot of family who actually didn't survive"
"The idea that they would accuse me of being soft on anti-Semitism is an outrage."
Nixon called for a retraction of the mailer, in addition to an apology.
"I think he actually owes an apology – not just to say it was unfortunate, it was a mistake, or inappropriate, but that it's factually wrong and it's a smear, and it's a really nasty smear at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise.
"This is fear mongering for political gain at its worst."
New York Democratic Party executive director Geoff Berman vowed Saturday via Twitter: "It will not happen again."
"Let me be very clear: This mailer was a mistake and is inappropriate and is not the tone the Democratic Party should set — it will not happen again," the full tweet read.
Berman added another tweet Sunday saying his party will send out a mailer for the Nixon campaign "of their choosing" to reconcile.
"The state Party sent out a wrong and inappropriate mailer — we will work with the Nixon campaign to send out a mailing of their choosing to the same universe of people," the tweet read Sunday morning.
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