Watershed Post: Democratic Congressional hopefuls debate in Woodstock; find little to disagree about - America Rising PAC

Watershed Post: Democratic Congressional hopefuls debate in Woodstock; find little to disagree about

Over 100 Democrats squeezed into the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center in Woodstock on Tuesday, June 7, where they listened to the first of three scheduled debates between primary contenders Zephyr Teachout and Will Yandik, who are competing for the Democratic nomination in New York’s 19th Congressional District race to replace the retiring Republican Congressman Chris […]

June 9, 2016

Over 100 Democrats squeezed into the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center in Woodstock on Tuesday, June 7, where they listened to the first of three scheduled debates between primary contenders Zephyr Teachout and Will Yandik, who are competing for the Democratic nomination in New York’s 19th Congressional District race to replace the retiring Republican Congressman Chris Gibson.

Teachout calls out opposition research tracker

One of the more interesting moments in the debate occurred when Teachout called attention to a campaign tracker who was attending the event. Identifying him only as “Joe” from America Rising, a PAC that produces opposition research on Democrats, the candidate said that he had been following her across the district at different events.

Few in the audience paid any mind to the tracker, but a member of Teachout’s campaign staff repeatedly taunted the man by standing in front of his video camera and taking close-up photographs of him.

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