{"id":17922,"date":"2014-10-31T04:10:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T04:10:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-31T04:10:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T04:10:44","slug":"How-Dare-You--GOP-Candidate-s-Wife-Fires-Back-at-Cuomo-s-Attack-Ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=17922","title":{"rendered":"How Dare You!\u2019: GOP Candidate\u2019s Wife Fires Back at Cuomo\u2019s Attack Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has a double-digit lead over his Republican challenger, Rob Astorino, heading into Election Day next Tuesday. But that hasn\u2019t stopped the incumbent from keeping the attack ads going strong. This week, the Republican\u2019s wife, Sheila Astorino, evidently decided she had had enough, releasing a video online in which she denounces some of Cuomo\u2019s most recent ads involving guns in the classroom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI have to speak out about the ugly and dishonest ads Governor Cuomo has been running,\u201d Astorino says in the video, after identifying herself as non-political school teacher. \u201cGovernor, you\u2019ve got to be kidding me,\u201d she continues, saying her children have had to stop watching television to avoid seeing Cuomo \u201cthrow mud at their father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve really gone too far for this mom and school teacher,\u201d Astorino says. \u201cTelling people my husband wants guns in classrooms? Guns in classrooms? You can\u2019t be serious. You used an extracurricular rifle safety program in a rural upstate county to make it sound like Rob would threaten the safety of school children.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow dare you? How dare you try to scare parents and teachers with something as serious as that?\u201d she asks. \u201cWhat you are doing is unforgivable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch video below, via Vimeo:<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.nystateofpolitics.com\/2014\/10\/sheila-astorino-to-cuomo-youve-really-gone-too-far\/<\/p>\n

The television ad in question, titled \u201cSafety,\u201d contrasts Cuomo\u2019s gun safety record with Astorino\u2019s \u201cultraconservative\u201d opposing views and includes the charge that the Republican \u201csupports gun programs for kids in schools.\u201d The ad cites an August report from Time Warner Cable News in which Astorino expressed support for a program that would \u201cget gun programs back into Sullivan County schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the video from Sheila Astorino, a spokesman for Cuomo\u2019s campaign said in a statement, \u201cWe encourage Mrs. Astorino to ask her husband about his support for programs that teach teens with discipline problems how to use guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the ad below, via YouTube:<\/strong>
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