The mailer outlines several tax measures the state congressman has supported. Lesser’s image appears under a banner reading “Vote no on Matt Lesser,” whose image is seemingly manipulated to appear dangerously untrustworthy. Ed Charamut, a local business owner battling Democratic state Rep. Matt Lesser for the seat, sent the mailer shortly after an anti-Semitic gunman killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The back of the mailer reads “Matt Lesser will take everything you worked for,” with an image of a senior holding a piggy bank away from a man’s outstretched arms. Lesser told the Hartford Courant that he started receiving text messages about the mailer on Monday but did not initially believe it.

Source: Huffington Post October 30, 2018 19:51 UTC