{"id":1466,"date":"2006-08-25T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_post_oppo_research_machine_chugs_along.html"},"modified":"2006-08-25T09:54:01","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T17:54:01","slug":"the_post_oppo_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_post_oppo_r.html","title":{"rendered":"The Post Oppo Research Machine Chugs Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After revealing yesterday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/see_the_thing_i.html\">Yvette Clarke sort of overlooked not actually receiving her degree<\/a>, the Post Oppo Research machine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/pol_denies_rat_tactic_regionalnews_stephanie_gaskell.htm\">makes Chris Owens prove he didn&#8217;t put up fliers calling David Yassky a rat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A black Brooklyn congressional candidate denied having anything to do with putting up fliers calling his Jewish opponent a rat.<\/p>\n<p>During a debate last night, Chris Owens &#8212; the son of Rep. Major Owens, who is vacating the seat in the 11th District &#8212; was asked if he was connected to fliers addressed to &#8220;Nasty Yassky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The posters refer to City Councilman David Yassky, who has been accused of moving into the district to run among a crowded field of blacks and take advantage of a split vote. &#8220;We don&#8217;t need any more rats or roaches in the neighborhood,&#8221; they read.<\/p>\n<p>The fliers were next to campaign posters for Owens, who said he hadn&#8217;t seen them. Councilwoman Yvette Clarke called Yassky an opportunist, while State Sen. Carl Andrews said he &#8220;has the right to run.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just two and-a-half weeks to go until the September 12 primary . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After revealing yesterday that Yvette Clarke sort of overlooked not actually receiving her degree, the Post Oppo Research machine makes Chris Owens prove he didn&#8217;t put up fliers calling David Yassky a rat: A black Brooklyn congressional candidate denied having anything to do with putting up fliers calling his Jewish opponent a rat. During a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-new_york_post","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}