The National Republican Congressional Committee is pressuring New York Democrats to return campaign contributions from Spitzer.
I've already received five virtually identical e-mails from the group. An example:
Democrat candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District, Eric Massa is running with his Democrat colleagues on a campaign centered on ethics and a promise to change "politics as usual," but now it appears that he has been running with the wrong crowd. This afternoon, Massa finds himself in a quandary as New York's top official, Democrat Governor Eliot Spitzer, admitted to being involved in an illegal prostitution ring, according to the New York Times.
Eric Massa now finds himself ensnared in this heated story as New York voters are wondering whether or not he will stand with the Governor or give back the thousands in campaign cash he accepted from him. To date, Massa has accepted $2,000 in campaign contributions from Eliot Spitzer.
I'll concede this is a fair line of attack, but I'm wondering how the cash is tainted. Spitzer hasn't been accused of profiting monetarily from prostitution. Tony Rezko, by contrast, is accused of hitting up companies seeking to do business with the state of Illinois. That money was ill-gotten, and Obama's campaign is right to return money linked to him.
