It’s no secret that Assembly candidate Kristy Mazurek has ties to Steve Pigeon. For instance, this blog has
chronicled extensively how the two operatives worked together in 2013, to support candidates in Democratic primaries against committee-endorsed candidates.
Of course, their fundraising tactics during that election cycle led to complaints that opened the door to a wide-reaching public corruption investigation. Ultimately, Pigeon was indicted, accused of bribing a state Supreme Court judge.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Mazurek might want to downplay her relationship with him as she tries to secure the Democratic nomination in the 143rd Assembly district. Maybe that’s why she cropped her former ally out of a campaign mailer sent to voters this week.
The literature features a photo of Mazurek with Buffalo business owners J.P. and Ulla Bak, but Erie County Democratic party boss Jeremy Zellner said somebody recognized Pigeon was in the original photo. That person began to circulate the photo, from Pigeon’s Facebook page, to committee members.
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