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Person: Eliot Spitzer

Spitzer Ad Doctors Headline

Spitzer Ad Doctors Headline
July 26, 2013

Newspaper stories are often used to misleading effect in political ads, but a new one-minute ad from New York City comptroller candidate Eliot Spitzer puts a twist on the theme by actually doctoring a New York Times headline.

Spitzer’s False Claim on Immigration

Spitzer’s False Claim on Immigration
July 22, 2013

Eliot Spitzer falsely claimed that allowing immigrants living in the United States illegally to obtain driver’s licenses — a policy he attempted to implement as governor of New York in 2007 — is now the “law of the land.”