GOP district leader Tom Pomposello resigned from the political committee this week after he was heard using the slur in reference to Patel, a Democrat who lost to the two GOP challengers after serving on the town board since 2010. Pomposello’s language was captured on video.
The video was originally posted on the town GOP’s Facebook page before it was taken down. The Yorktown News, a local news site, put the part of the video on YouTube this week.
In 2017, the state Republican committee sent a campaign mailer depicting former Yorktown Supervisor Susan Siegel, who is Jewish, as a puppet master with Patel alongside other nonwhite and Jewish candidates on strings, saying they would create a sanctuary town for undocumented immigrants. Democrats called the mailer racist and antisemitic, while local Republicans declined to denounce it.
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