Martha Robertson ’75 Loses National Democrat Funding–Cornell Daily Sun in Panic Mode?

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) recently cut its advertising funding for New York’s 23rd district Democratic candidate, Martha Robertson ’75. The ads would have aired in the final two weeks leading up to the election and were slated to cost $465,000.

This is a drastic setback among many others for Robertson, who just back in March was placed by the DCCC in the “Red to Blue” program. But all along the way, Robertson has clung to her cookie-cutter liberal platform, which seemingly doesn’t go over well outside of Ithaca in the mostly conservative, job-hungry, economically-depressed Southern Tier and Western New York.

The Cornell Review has covered some of her recent shady behavior and unethical collusion with the left-leaning Cornell Daily Sun. Legal Insurrection has a plethora of articles on just about everything else she has done wrong. Here’s an excerpt from the latest piece:

Literally nothing has gone right with Robertson’s campaign. Everything Robertson does backfires.

Robertson’s campaign got the bright idea of soliciting funds by falsely claiming that GOP operatives tried to take down her website. Backfire.

Robertson tried to appear as a healthcare moderate, then old videos surfaced in which Robertson advocated Obamacare as a stepping stone to single payer. Backfire.

Robertson decided that making fun of the fact that Tom Reed used to be very overweight was a good advertising tactic. Backfire.

The latest backfire is that Robertson’s her much coveted Sierra Club endorsement became problematic after the Sierra Club sued to close a local power plant and kill jobs in the district.

Robertson has played right into the hands of Reed, who portrays Robertson as an out-of-touch “extreme Ithaca liberal,” a position Robertson attempts to portray as “anti-Ithaca” when in reality everyone recognizes that an “extreme Ithaca liberal” is a type of voter, not a geographic location (I’m an Ithaca voter!).

Today’s Cornell Daily Sun’s front page dominant story was on this topic, with a headline spanning the entire page reading “Martha Robertson ’75 Sees Setback After Dems Pull Funding.” The front page featured two other articles, one of which was campus specific, and both of which had good photos.

Why did the Sun editorial board feel this article had to be the leading news story? For aloof, apathetic, and/or ignorant students, this isn’t that big of a deal. More likely, it’s because the Sun’s editorial board is panicking now that they see Robertson’s chances of turning NY23 from red to blue are diminishing as each day passes.