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brooklynite

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Tue Jun 28, 2022, 11:08 AM Jun 2022

NY-GOV Republican Primary: Harry Wilson calls Lee Zeldin, aide 'scumbags' in mistakenly sent text

Trailing in the polls appears to be getting to GOP gubernatorial candidate Harry Wilson.

Wilson bitterly blasted front-runner Lee Zeldin and a campaign aide as “scumbags” in a text message — and then accidentally sent it to his rival, The Post has learned.

Ahead of Tuesday’s primary elections, Wilson fumed over getting called out for condemning an attack on fellow GOP hopeful Andrew Giuliani’s dad, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, while not saying anything about a Zeldin campaign sign getting defaced with a backward swastika and a slang reference to murder.

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“Look at what these scumbags are trying to do,” Wilson wrote, according to an iPhone screenshot.

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But Wilson — who was in third place in the two most recent polls — also inadvertently included Zeldin in the brash group message.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/27/harry-wilson-calls-lee-zeldin-aide-scumbags-in-mistakenly-sent-text/


Actually, that kind of language might help.....
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NY-GOV Republican Primary: Harry Wilson calls Lee Zeldin, aide 'scumbags' in mistakenly sent text (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2022 OP
Zeldin is a scumbag...Wilson got that part right agingdem Jun 2022 #1
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