Chris Cox On Randy Altschuler

ALTSCHULER OUTSOURCES HIS LIES ONCE AGAIN.  Still Refuses to Support Republican Nominee

Smithtown, NY — The campaign of Chris Cox, the genuine conservative Republican and the only candidate assured of a ballot line in November for the First Congressional District seat, today responded to the latest outsourced job by former Green Party member Randolph Altschuler: a series of outright fabrications.

“Once again, while refusing to address the issue at hand - Mr. Altschuler’s refusal to support the eventual Republican nominee and his insistence on a doomed minor party run despite its consequences for the people of Suffolk County - the Altschuler campaign shows it has no regard for the truth whatsoever,” said Brad White, Campaign Manager for Chris Cox for Congress.

“Last Thursday evening, Chris Cox repeated to the hundreds of assembled members of the Smithtown Republican Committee in reference to his intentions should he not win the September 14^th primary: ‘I will support the Republican candidate. I always have and I always will.’  That is the pledge which Chris Cox has made throughout this campaign to all the voters of the First CD in the knowledge that the best way to defeat the liberal Democratic incumbent was with a genuine conservative running on the Republican and Conservative lines.  Even Suffolk Conservative Chairman Walsh agrees.  Unfortunately, Mr. Altschuler has, at best hemmed and hawed.  In his campaign’s latest outsourced attack, he still refuses to support the Republican nominee.  He didn’t commit to Republicans when he was screening for the GOP designation nomination, and he refuses to commit now.  Apparently, he thinks Republicans are stupid and will believe any lie his money can try to sell.”

THE LATEST OF THE MANY OUTSOURCED LIES: Altschuler’s Campaign Manager claiming that Chris Cox “signed pledge in March saying he would run on CP [Conservative Party] line alone.”

THE TRUTH: There is no pledge to run on the Conservative line alone.

In seeking both the Republican and Conservative designations, Chris Cox made eminently clear that he would support the eventual winner of the Republican Primary.  On March 21st, Chris Cox did sign the Conservative Party “Candidate Commitment.”  In no way does that commitment lessen his more important commitment to the Republican Party, or force him to split the ticket regardless of other circumstances.

The commitment reads; “I hereby commit to the voters in the political subdivision that encompasses the office I am seeking, to run a full, committed campaign on the Conservative Party line throughout the complete campaign cycle of June 2010 to November 2, 2010.” 

After the Appellate Courts restore the Conservative Opportunity to Ballot, and Chris Cox wins both the Conservative and Republican primaries, he will indeed run a full, committed campaign on both lines.

AN EARLIER OUTSOURCED LIE:  Altschuler and the Conservatives seek to unify the ticket.

Suffolk Conservative Party Chairman Ed Walsh sent a July 7, 2010, letter to Chris in which he wrote:  “Traditionally, the Republican and Conservative Parties have worked together here in Suffolk County to elect officeholders who stand for a series of principles and common ideals that we both endorse…. however, what is absolutely required for success, is that our nominee shares Conservative and Republican support.”

Apparently, Mr. Walsh and Mr. Altschuler either were lying then, or are lying now.

 THE TRUTH:  Lifelong Republican Chris Cox sought both the Republican and Conservative lines precisely because he intends to run a full, committed campaign on both lines.

Chris Cox is also the only candidate to amass the endorsement of major Tea Party organizations, such as the largest affiliated group in the First CD, the Suffolk County 9-12 Project.

Chris Cox filed thousands of independent signatures, which means — when added to the signatures already filed for the Republican Party and the Conservative Party Opportunity to Ballot — that more voters signed petitions for Chris Cox than for his two Republican competitors combined.

 AN OUTSOURCED LIE ABOUT OUTSOURCING: “Randy Altschuler has never outsourced an American job.”

That is the most blatant of the stunning mistruths spoken by Brookhaven Councilwoman Jane Bonner - an enrolled Conservative — in a robo-call attacking Chris Cox and refusing to acknowledge his residence in Westhampton Beach or his lifelong residence in the State of New York.

THE TRUTH: The widely reported fact that Mr. Altschuler sent American jobs overseas has been reported in countless business and news publications, including Business Week, Time Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times.

In the documentary “Office Tigers” Mr. Altschuler and his partner Joe Sigelman not only admit they moved American jobs overseas to India and elsewhere, but wrap themselves in glory for the dubious achievement.

Soon after they sold their company OfficeTiger to RR Donnelley for some $250 million, RR Donnelley was ranked 49 in the Top Offshoring Providers list, a sub-list of The Global Outsourcing 100, by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).

A sampling of links:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_28/b3942429.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_37/b3950087_mz020.htm

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/rr-donelley-acquires-officetiger-for-250-m/37185/