When the campaign manager for Democratic Senate candidate
Simcha Felder tried to follow his opponent State Sen. David Storobin’s Twitter
feed recently, he was told that he had “been blocked from following this
account at the request of the user” — starting a war of words between the rival
camps.
Felder’s campaign manager, well-known Republican
operative O.B. Murray, passed along a screen shot of Storobin denying
his request to receive such recent tweets as “Mazel Tov to Brooklyn C.B. 12
Chairman @YidelPerlstein upon the birth of a baby girl! Much nachas!” and other
mostly innocuous fare.
When Chris Bragg from City & State asked Storobin spokesman Steve Stites about why
Storobin’s campaign did not want the rival campaign manager following
Storobin’s government-oriented Twitter account, he responded with some pretty explosive counter-allegations.
“Well, since Felder already has paid people physically
following the Senator, we figured the Twitter account was obsolete,” Stites
wrote in an email.
When asked for further details about the allegations
against Felder’s campaign, though, Stites declined to comment.
Storobin also has a separate, more campaign-oriented Twitter
feed. In January, City & State reported on a several year old tweet from
another, now-deleted Storobin campaign feed suggesting that President Obama was
Muslim, which had actually been sent out by a Storobin campaign supporter far
before the campaign.
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