From True News: At a press conference yesterday at Queen Borough
Hall, Assemblywoman Grace Meng responded to attacks from her Republican
congressional opponent, Queens Councilman Dan Halloran, about Meng's
decision not to disclose her campaign bundlers. "First of all, that's something
we released a statement on already," Meng said, when asked about the charges by
reporters, "and the response is pretty much the same for any candidate who
understands campaign finance rules at the city, state, and federal level. There
is no such thing as bundlers. It is something that is made up for political
purposes." Halloran's campaign is trying to make an issue of the fact that
Meng's father, Jimmy, was recently arrested by the FBI for allegedly accepting
bribes – and may have raised money for Meng's campaign.
But Meng, at the press conference with Maryland Rep.
Steny Hoyer to highlight her plan to create American jobs, said other
issues should be of paramount importance. "We're doing what any other
congressional candidate has done across the country, in fact, we've actually
been using stricter procedures than most candidates across the nation," Meng
added of her fundraising efforts. Halloran's spokesman Steven
Stites continued to attack in response to Meng's comments: “Assemblywoman
Meng is playing a game of ‘can you' top this?’ First she won't disclose
her bundlers. Now she says bundlers don't exist. Next, she'll say her money got
delivered by a stork.” (City and State) * Grace Meng responded to Dan
Halloran’s demand that she release her bundlers by denying she has any, causing
Halloran’s spokesman to
retort, “First she won’t disclose her bundlers. Now she says bundlers don’t
exist. Next, she’ll say her money got delivered by a stork.”
Meng also pushed
her plan to jumpstart businesses in New York.
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