White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Amy Paulin Does Commercial for Tony Sayegh.

WPCNR WHITE PLAINS NEW GAZETTE. October 29, 2002 UPDATED: The Republican Party is running a television commercial as of today, on local television stations using Amy Paulin's tape-recorded remarks to Robert Fois as the point of the commercial. A viewer who first saw the spot Tuesday evening on Channel 26, they report, was shocked hearing Ms. Paulin mocking the pronunciation of Arab-sounding names in the tape recording. A spokesman for Mr. Sayegh's campaign told WPCNR Wednesday the spot is being aired on an extensive buy, including cablechannels CNN, Lifetime, and others. He said, no network was refusing to air the spot.

One week ago, Mr. Sayegh held a news conference announcing the existence of the "Amy Tape," a conversation Ms. Paulin had with Eastchester Town Report correspondent, Robert Fois, that he had recorded. The tape, the transcript of which can be read elsewhere on WPCNR, was characterized as Ms. Paulin's repeated attempt to indicate to reporter Fois that Mr. Sayegh's funding was coming from outside the 88th Assembly District and from possibly Arab contributors. Mr. Sayegh was shocked by the tape and in the news conference accused Ms. Paulin of inappropriate remarks with racial overtones.

Ms. Paulin has not returned WPCNR telephone calls requesting an explanation for whether she had reviewed Eastchester Town Report stories for "fairness" to her, or whether she had been told by the Eastchester Town Report that Fois, the reporter had been fired. A newspaper article in the Journal News on last Monday's news conference had reported Ms. Paulin as saying Fois had been fired for "baiting" her during the interview on the tape. A correction stating that Mr. Fois was on a leave of absence only was made by the paper after the article appeared. Fois had told WPCNR he had requested a leave of absence himself when the Eastchester Town Report refused to listen to the Paulin tape.


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