City Comptroller candidate David Weprin is lashing out at two of his leading primary rivals in a blistering final-week campaign mailing, slamming them for “double talk” over the death penalty.
The Queens councilman slaps Brooklyn Councilman David Yassky and Queens Councilwoman Melinda Katz, who are well ahead of him in recent polls.
The mailing has shots of Yassky and Katz just beneath an electric chair.
Yassky “helped write a statute expanding the death penalty,” while Katz, a former assemblywoman, “voted for the death penalty when she was in Albany,” the mailing says.
Yassky helped craft a 1994 federal crime bill that expanded the death penalty, but also added 100,000 cops nationally and toughened penalties for violence against women, his aides noted.
“They say they’re against [the death penalty],” the mailer says. “Talk about double talk . . . They’ll say anything to get a vote for a job they’re not qualified for.”
Aides to both called the mailing “desperate,” saying it twists the facts, and insisting both hopefuls oppose capital punishment.