I'm a resident of NY-20, John Sweeney's district. It's a funny district, tending to vote Republican with occasional pockets of Democrats. It is, I think, mostly anti-tax small government right rather than rascist wingnut right, which makes Sweeney's new campaign materials a little odd.

We got a Sweeney flyer in the mail the other day -- he's gone full tilt wingnut anti-immigrant looney on us. It makes no sense; this is upstate NY and we don't have a lot of immigrants, other than maybe local university students from overseas who might decide they want to stay around, and I don't see how a flyer like this energizes much of anyone in these parts. But he's gone and done it. I'm hearing he may be in trouble; maybe he has bad consultants telling him this is what he needs to do, but I have to think that if there were many typical, not terribly well informed voters who were going to default into voting for Sweeney without thinking about it, this might get there attention -- and not in a good way for Sweeney.

I put the flyer in the burn pile, but it probably isn't gone yet. Maybe I'll dig it out and post details at some point.