Prompting charges of antisemitism, a campaign mailer sent in Middletown this week attacks Democratic state Rep. Matt Lesser with edited imagery showing the Jewish legislator holding $100 bills near his face and smiling maniacally. After spending Sunday night at a candle-light vigil for the victims shot at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Lesser said he found the mailer sent by his opponent Republican Ed Charamut “deeply upsetting.” “For somebody in 2018 in Connecticut to surface this kind of representation is unconscionable,” said Howard Sovronsky, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford. “It’s that old image of the greedy Jew that we find incredibly offensive.
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