<Facepalm> And this guy's not even a Republican...

[cthulu2016]

Brooklyn primary candidate in N.Y. Assembly race says 'negrohood' mailer was just a 'typo'

An Assembly candidate whose campaign sent mailers using the word “negrohood” to residents in his Sheepshead Bay district apologized Wednesday — calling the racially tinged language a “typo.”

“As the candidate, I take full responsibility for this inadvertent error and I am sorry to anyone who was offended by it,” Ben Akselrod, who’s running in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary against Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, said in a statement.

The Friends of Ben Akselrod sent the mailers last week, claiming that his opponent “has allowed crime to go up over 50% in our negrohood so far this year.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-pol-negrohood-mailer-a-typo-article-1.1147632#ixzz253n8TAbM

[lapfog_1]

1. This smells of campaign ratfucking - n/t

[EC]

2. Sounds like

Sabotage. I don't like seeing this between two Dems...one must be a fake.

[leftyohiolib]

3. how do you "typo" negrohood out of neighborhood

[lob1]

4. Negrohood...neighborhood. That's not a typo,

that's a bunch of typos plus a brain freeze. Who believes that crap?

[HopeHoops]

5. "negrohood"? WTF is THAT supposed to mean?

I don't know, but it certainly doesn't sound right on any level.