Former Attorney General Terry Goddard has denounced the tactics used by the campaigns of Kyrsten Sinema and David Schapira yesterday. Saying that “it grieves me to see them take this path,” Goddard condemned the race baiting tactics of Shapira and Sinema which he called “shameful campaigning.”
The condemnation from Goddard is due to the attempt by CD9 candidates Kyrsten Sinema’s and David Schapira’s attack of fellow Democrat and primary contender Andrei Cherney.
“I am disappointed that Kyrsten Sinema’s and David Schapira’s campaigns are making irresponsible attacks instead of dealing with the important issues facing our country,” said Goddard.
Sinema and Shapira had organized a press conference to bring attention to what they claim was a 2002 campaign attack ad Cherny used in hopes of getting elected to the California Assembly. The ad featured a tattooed black man with a gun and accused Cherny’s opponent of being soft on crime.
However, no one showed up to the press conference except three reporters and Shapira supporter, Representative Katie Hobbs. She told one reporter that she “didn’t know where everyone was.”
Even Senator Steve Gallardo, one of Arizona’s most infamous race baiters, decided not to show up and support his candidate Shapira. Gallardo told the Yellow Sheet that “he didn’t want to rehash decade-old mailers and get in the middle of a Dem congressional primary.”
The Yellow Sheet quotes Gallardo, “I saw the mailer that Cherny sent out 10 years ago. Was it inappropriate? Yes. Did he get his hand slapped in that race? Yes. Do we need to bring it up now? I don’t think so,” he said, adding that Sinema’s so-called “drop-house” legislation was worse than anything Cherny has done.”
Not even Sinema and Shapira showed up to their press conference once they discovered how unpopular the move was.
Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski called the tactics “the most disgusting kind of politics I’ve ever seen in the Democratic Party.”