State Senate hopeful David Yassky fibbed to voters about getting endorsements in his Democratic Primary race against incumbent state Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn) — before getting called out by The Post Monday.
The former City Council member from Brooklyn Heights had touted fake endorsements from a local political club and a prominent gun control group while running ahead of the Aug. 23 election.
“It’s intentionally deceptive,” Gounardes spokeswoman Amanda Luz Henning Santiago alleged in a statement.
The Yassky campaign removed references on his campaign website and Twitter account Monday to a claimed endorsement by IND Brooklyn, a political group backing Gounardes to represent a newly-created 26th senate district, that includes waterfront neighborhoods from DUMBO to Bay Ridge.
Yassky, who last served in the council in 2009 and then served as Taxi & Limousine Commissioner, will also stop claiming a formal endorsement by anti-gun group Moms Demand Action on mailers sent to voters, according to spokesman George Artz.
“Obviously we didn’t mean to put that out,” Artz said of the two misleading claims.
IND Brooklyn previously endorsed Yassky before the state’s highest court declared legislative lines approved by Albany Democrats as unconstitutional, which led to a new map created by a court-appointed special master.
“The campaign’s site and social media have been updated to reflect the new lines. The IND endorsement, which clearly relates to the old map, has been...
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