NY-20 Sweeney loses endorsement [View All]

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This story just keeps getting better and better. John Sweeney just lost his endorsement from the Post Star of Glens Falls, NY.


Serious allegations of domestic violence were raised against Congressman John Sweeney earlier this week after three newspapers published police accounts of a 911 call to his home in December.

The congressman has said he wants the truth to come out. But his actions in the wake of the incident and the disclosure of the 911 call in the media indicate otherwise.

The congressman's staff first responded to the police report on Wednesday by claiming the document was "fabricated" and "concocted" by an unnamed operative in the campaign of his opponent, Kirsten Gillibrand.

On Thursday, the congressman changed his story, admitting that there had been some kind of incident at his home that night, but that it wasn't as the police report in the media said it was.


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http://www.poststar.com/articles/2006/11/03/news/doc454beb94004a5026428988.txt