The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/23rd-congressional-district/)
Congressional candidates Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 went head-to-head, debating over COVID-19 responses, police reform and early voting.
The race for New York’s 23rd Congressional District turned to mudslinging last week as incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) accused his opponent, Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95, of running an “anti-police campaign,” despite Mitrano’s multiple assertions that she is a supporter of law enforcement and against defunding the police. This is the second election where Mitrano and Reed are facing off for the western New York congressional seat. The change in tone comes as protests against police violence and, this weekend, protests in support of police, sweep Ithaca. The accusation came after revelations that an organizer with the Mitrano campaign posted the following on Instagram: “Fuck Tom Reed, fuck cops, fuck capitalism, fuck Trump.” Reed campaign communications director Abbey Daugherty called the comments “hateful and offensive” and claimed them as proof that “what truly motivates Mitrano [is] … a hatred of our law enforcement community and our capitalist system.”
Mitrano said that she only met the organizer once and that “the statements made in the post do not in any way represent me or my values,” in an Oct.
Some of you still have a couple years before you need to figure this out, others of you already have – the return offer signed, sealed and delivered. But how many of us will answer this question the same way as we did in kindergarten? Our misspelling hands scrawling on our first homework assignments, writing down the reasons we wanted to be firefighters, astronauts, artists, secret agents, veterinarians, movie stars, the President, our fathers and mothers. Not once did you hear trade analyst, consultant, HR representative. Yes, that’s probably because half those words weren’t in our vocabulary yet.
Democrat candidate for Congress Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 sent a cease and desist letter after Rep. Tom Reed’s campaign circulated what she calls a “patently false” attack ad.
In the election for the 23rd Congressional District in New York, incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) beat Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 by a solid margin. Tompkins County significantly favored Mitrano, who came up short against Reed who has served as House Representative since 2010.