A deluge of mailers from Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s government office leading up to Tuesday’s primary has election watchers questioning whether she has crossed an ethical boundary.
arrowJohn Nacion/NurPhoto/ShutterstockBut a deluge of mailers from Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s government office leading up to Tuesday’s primary has election watchers questioning whether she has crossed an ethical boundary.
That strategy has raised serious concerns with ethics experts, voters, and Maloney’s opponents, who accuse her of violating the spirit, if not the letter of the law, by using the taxpayer’s dime to help spread her campaign’s message. Maloney’s own campaign has raised more $4 million, including a $900,000 loan. The campaign has $1.2 million in cash on hand as of August 3rd.
“Carolyn Maloney has always communicated with her constituents about her work on issues of interest to them and the district more widely. As you note, the letters are fully in compliance with House rules,” said Liff. Glassman said the House has a series of rules that limit what can go in a franked mailer to prevent it from being used as a campaign tool, limiting the topics to issues related to what the representative has worked on that may be of interest in an official capacity to the constituent. But he also noted that members have abused this tool in the past.
Was it really worth it politically to get attention for something when, in the end, it is probably not gonna be all that decisive?Rod Aminian, 36, is a voter living in the Murray Hill neighborhood in the 12th congressional district. He said his mailbox has been jammed with the candidates' glossy fliers, most of which end up in the trash before he ever looks at them.
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