A River Ran Through It
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- February
- 27
If you talk to Democrats and Republicans today about the reason why Democrat Darrel Aubertine beat Republican Will Barclay in Tuesday’s special Senate election, most point to this ad below.
Barclay was unable to recover from the ad, which was done by Spitzer’s advertising guru Jimmy Siegel, and showed how Barclay’s family wouldn’t let people fish on their land.
Barclay’s camp responded with an attack that alleged Aubertine profited from wind farms on his dairy farm, but some GOP officials said the ad wasn’t effective and came too late.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
