Murtagh to call 9,000 Mt. Pleasant voters
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State Senate candidate and Yonkers City Council member John Murtagh is holding what he’s calling a “telephone town hall meeting” tonight as he strives to build his name recognition in his GOP challenge to Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers.
What does that mean? Murtagh’s campaign will be robo-calling 9,000 registered voters tonight in Mount Pleasant. The call recipients will hear a recorded invitation from Murtagh asking if they want to stay on the line to chat with the candidate and other voters about issues facing the state, including any action taken today in an Albany special legislative session.
Carl Scaringe, an aide to Murtagh, says callers will also have the option of pressing a key on their phone to opt out of the call and any future calls like it. He says the call is just one of a series the candidate expects to place to voters in Yonkers, Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant as the campaign ramps up. Mount Pleasant is first, he said, because “we haven’t really made our presence known there yet.”
While the tactic was new to me, Bill O’Reilly, who is handling press for Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld’s GOP campaign for the District 37 state Senate seat,ÂÂ said she has done two such calls in White Plains and New Rochelle with “several thousand” participants.
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let murtagh remind them how is has voted for a recent tax increase of 8%.
Murtagh should remind people that Andrea has a long and illustrious career of voting to raise taxes.
If she had been able to deliver more —or anything—for Yonkers, the City Council would not have had to raise taxes to cover the shortfall from the state.