Note: NiLP does not endorse candidates and we do not publish partisan campaign literature, but we felt it was important to disseminate the one below that was reprinted by blogger and El Diario-La Prensacolumnist Roberto Perez. In the high profile and highly contentious race in the New York State Senate's 31st District in northern Manhattan pitting two Dominican candidates, the incumbent Adriano Espaillat and his challenger, Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, a flier accusing Linares of betraying the Latino community for endorsing Congressman Charlie Rangel over Espaillat in the recent primary is circulating.
It is not clear who sent this out, but it raises troubling ethnical questions. Is this type of negative campaigning appropriate? Are these types of narrow nationalistic political appeals a healthy thing? And what does this say about Black-Latino relations? As this week's local primaries approach, it gives us reason to pause and ponder about the nature and future of Latino politics.
---Angelo Falcón
Negative Mailer Attacks Linares
Accusing him of Betraying Latinos
By Roberto Perez
The Perez Notes (September 9, 2012)
The race between Linares and Espaillat is getting nasty folks. As we all know, there is a lot of bad blood between the two men, and this mailing will only make things worse . . .
