Malloy Campaign Fabricates Endorsement

June 22, 2006

Fabrication Disrespects Working Men and Women.

New Haven - This afternoon Dan Malloy - Democratic candidate for governor - announced that New Haven AFSCME Local 1303-393 endorsed his candidacy for governor. Incredibly, the news release was inaccurate and the Local has not endorsed Malloy. What's more, Malloy's release fabricates comments from Local President Arthur Sandella.

Malloy's news release quotes Sandella as saying, "Dan Malloy understands working men and women, he's the strongest Democratic candidate, and we're proud to endorse him."

Sandella tells the DeStefano campaign today, "I never said that. There was no vote among members or the executive board. There was no endorsement." As for having the Malloy campaign fabricate comments and attribute them to him, "that's disrespectful."

"We understand why the Malloy campaign would be so desperate for support from hard working men and women," said Derek Slap - Communications Director for the DeStefano campaign - "but this is unfortunate."

"Next week the AFL-CIO is expected to endorse the DeStefano campaign, the first time it has endorsed a gubernatorial primary candidate. The unprecedented support shows that John DeStefano is the candidate who will fight for working families. DeStefano has been endorsed by 40 labor organizations, representing 160,000 working families and he has earned each endorsement by working hard for people who work for a living. It is unfortunate the Malloy campaign believes there's any other way to get an endorsement."