BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Earlier this morning, Molinaro’s opponent, Ithaca attorney Josh Riley, held a gathering with his supporters a couple blocks away.
A couple dozen people packed Chris’s Diner on State Street as Riley bought them a breakfast of scrambled eggs and whole wheat toast.
The Union-Endicott grad met with local Democratic activists and signed up volunteers.
Riley called Molinaro a career politician who will do whatever the right-wing party bosses in Washington DC tell him to do.
Riley says he represents working class people who can’t afford swanky fundraisers.
“You just look at the difference in the rooms that Marc Molinaro and I are in today. I’m here at Chris’s Diner talking with voters about the issues that really matter to them. We need to secure the border, we have to strengthen the middle class. I want to protect Social Security, lower costs for things like prescription drugs and utilities,” said Riley.
Riley reiterated that he had nothing to do with the protests planned for today and didn’t plan to attend them.
Molinaro responded to Riley’s insults by calling the Democrat a Washington DC lawyer who abandoned his hometown to work for a law firm that represented big oil and big pharma.
