Treadwell campaign repudiates Osama-Obama link

This morning, NCPR aired a story that included my reporting from the scene of a rally for Republican congressional candidate Sandy Treadwell held in Queensbury.

During the rally, a Treadwell booster told a brief joke linking Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to Al Quaeda leader and terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Mr. Treadwell and former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani had not yet arrived at the event when the comment was made.

This afternoon, the Treadwell campaign issued the following statement:

“We were not aware of anybody making such a comment,” said campaign spokesman Peter Constantakes. “We do not agree with such comments and in fact we repudiate them.”