Fake Green Party Candidate Exposed as Having Ties to Republican Congressman

[DonViejo]

The man who pushed a fake Green Party candidate once interned for Rep. Chris Collins—the congressman the candidate was supposedly trying to unseat.

JUSTIN GLAWE
04.30.18 5:31 AM ET

The former Green Party candidate in a congressional race has been exposed as a Republican plant with ties to the GOP congressman he supposedly sought to challenge

Michael Zak petitioned to run under the Green Party ticket in New York’s 27th congressional district, a seat currently held by Rep. Chris Collins. Zak’s candidacy petition listed as the official contact person Ross Kostecky, a local Republican operative who interned on Collins’s 2009 campaign for Erie County, New York executive, The Daily Beast has found.

“Of course I know Ross Kostecky. I’ve known him for years. He’s a good Republican,” said Chris Grant, Collins’s campaign director. “As to why he did this, you’d have to ask him. Our campaign has absolutely nothing to do with [Michael Zak]. We don’t know this person.”

In 2016, Kostecky was an alternate delegate at the Republican National Convention, where he snapped a photo of Collins seconding the nomination of Donald Trump for president. Collins and Kostecky did not respond to requests for comment; Zak could not be reached for comment.

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[Fullduplexxx]

1. I would have thought that of all of them

[Kablooie]

2. Sounds like the Green party is a Republican plot

to siphon off Democratic votes.

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[Takket]

4. was expecting a thread about jill stein..............

[Codeine]

6. She skipped the Republicans and went straight

to working for the Russians. Oil oligarchs are more willing to deposit directly into numbered Swiss accounts.

[Codeine]

5. I remember being a registered Green Party member

back in the early 90s. My disenchantment with third parties comes from hard-earned experience.

In my defense, I have ALWAYS voted for the Democratic Party candidate in general elections. I just wasted a lot of time, effort, money, and energy in the earlier stages of a campaign season.