NARAL Hits Robach Over Voting Record (Updated)
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NARAL Pro-Choice New York today released a television spot in Monroe County that it says exposes “Joe Robach’s 17-year, anti-choice voting record in Albany.”
The group says that Rochester-area Senator Robach, a former Democrat, has held an 83 percent voting record with the Right to Life Committee.
They said he has voted to block poor women from receiving support to pay for abortion care and “has sided with the most extreme anti-choice Republican elements.”
The ad says, “Joe Robach would vote to outlaw abortion and treat women like criminals.”
Kelli Conlin, president of NARAL, said in a statement that “Joe Robach is spending a lot of money to try to convince the people of his district that he is an advocate for women. But the truth is he’s dangerously out of touch with the women of Monroe County. Time and time again, he has chosen to side with the most anti-choice forces in the state legislature.”
The ad will run during the final presidential debate tomorrow night and on shows that target women, such as The View, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and The Biggest Loser.
Updated: Here’s the response from Robach’s campaign:
“Another day, another negative, misleading and hypocritical ad from Richard Dollinger and his allies. The record shows no one has worked harder on behalf of women than Senator Joe Robach. In contrast, Richard Dollinger failed to support women when he voted against coverage for infertility treatments, breast cancer screenings and cervical cancer screenings, so for him to criticize anyone for not being strong on issues concerning women is really just the height of hypocrisy.â€
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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. 
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