| Peter Oberacker hasn’t even been a candidate for Congress for a full day and he’s already lying to Upstate voters.
In his new launch video, Oberacker stares into the camera from picturesque Upstate New York farmland and declares that he was “born and raised” there. But there’s just one problem: he wasn’t.
Oberacker was actually born in Merrick, Long Island — over 200 miles and nearly 4 hours away from his supposed hometown of Schenevus.
Meanwhile, Josh Riley doesn’t need a fancy script to prove his roots. Born in Binghamton and raised in West Endicott, Riley grew up in the very communities Oberacker is now trying to claim as his own.
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
“While Peter Oberacker’s busy rewriting his own biography in an attempt to fool NY-19 voters, Josh Riley’s fighting to lower costs and make health care more affordable for hardworking Upstate families. If Oberacker is willing to lie about something as simple as where he’s from, imagine what he’ll say and do in Washington.”
Read for yourself…
Politico New York: The Upstate man from Merrick
- The Republican candidate competing for Democratic Rep. Josh Riley’s upstate Congressional seat launched his bid today with a video set in a picturesque expanse of upstate farmland and rolling hills.
- “This land, this soil, it’s where I was born and raised,” Peter Oberacker, the Republican state Senator challenging Riley, says in the campaign launch video.
- He looks into the camera and delivers the line before the ad shows him tending to horses and operating a tractor.
- But the scene is a far cry from where he was actually born — Merrick, Long Island.
- “It’s no surprise to us that the first words out of Pete Oberacker’s mouth to Upstate voters were a lie,” said Maddie Summers, Riley’s campaign manager.
- Oberacker’s campaign did not deny his Long Island roots, but noted that since at least kindergarten he’s resided in the small town of Schenevus, New York, where he attended school throughout his youth. Oberacker’s Instagram and X bios also brandish the identifier “Upstate NY Born and Raised.”
- Riley, on the other hand, was born in Binghamton and grew up in West Endicott — both inside his NY-19 district.
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