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Nassau County legislator Howard Kopel is in a bind. He's an incumbent member of the majority of a county legislature that just passed a budget that doesn't raise taxes, but does call for shuttering two police precints and privatizing county bus services. Newsday, known in that part of the world simply as "the paper," endorsed Kopel's opponent, Adam Moser, in next week's election.

But Kopel seems to have come up with a late-in-the-game mailer that will shift the conversation away from fiscal management and whatever Newsday has to say about his race, at least momentarily.  It attacks Moser, a lawyer, for representing "porn stars & strippers." Pictured on the mailer, separately, are Moser and two blonde ladies. The pictures are set into an insert that looks kind of like a page from the New York Post, across the top of which runs an actual Post headline that says, "$exxxy duo use tongue".

(Here's the original Post story, which begins, "Talk about cunning linguists!")

UPDATE: Former state senator Craig Johnson: "Kopel reps heavy Ortho Jewish district. Needs to drive up turnout. Must have bad poll #s to put this out."

Azi Paybarah

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