Posted on 03/17/2006 3:26:17 PM PST by jmaroneps37
NEW YORK -- The top adviser to Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland said Friday that her rival for the Republican Senate nomination, former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, lacked the credentials, knowledge and financial backing to mount a credible challenge to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"It would be a very big mistake to think John Spencer _ no offense to John, who I guess was a decent enough mayor _ to move him to a level of where anyone is going to take him seriously as a U.S. Senate candidate," McFarland adviser Ed Rollins told The Associated Press. "Unfortunately, John Spencer wouldn't know which side of the Capitol the U.S. Senate meets."
Spencer called Rollins' remarks "arrogant and condescending," and said he would match his credentials against anyone in the race.
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