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DISGRACEFUL Weider/Fried
Rockland County Legislator Aron Weider has been discovered to be bashing police in an effort to push David Fried to the Hasidic community, using a phone-based news and information network to conduct Yiddish-language outreach as a surrogate of David Fried.
The original Yiddish recording, available at this link, or by calling 845-414-1114 and pushing "2," and then "2" again, translates as follows:
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"Many say that Ed Day is a pissed off guy... he was a police officer for 40 years... as they say all police officers have... you know... such an outlook that everyone is a criminal until he proves to me that he ain't. You understand? So... is... is... this is also a strong reason to come out... as they say... I hope that this David Fried will be able to decrease, turn off, the hate that's going around."
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Ed Day, a 23 (not 40) year veteran of two police departments, said "I call upon David Fried to immediately denounce this offensive and ignorant insult to all police officers, and I call upon Legislator Weider to immediately apologize to the many thousands of police officers in Rockland he insulted in a cynical effort to gain votes for his candidate."