The election for New York City mayor will be held Nov. 5. De Blasio ad: Kochs want to buy vote

Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City Bill de Blasio’s campaign released an ad Thursday slamming billionaire Republican donors the Koch brothers.

“Don’t let the Koch Brothers buy the election,” the ad says, which also labels the David and Charles Koch as a pair “who spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to defeat President Obama.”


“They’re back. And now they’ve set their sights on New York City,” the ad continues.

The ad follows a court decision Thursday that will now allow a conservative political action committee, that supports Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota, to accept unlimited contributions.

In a statement De Blasio campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said, “The stakes are too high to let the same Republican extremists who shut down the government hijack the mayoral election.”

The ad further says that the Koch brothers gave “hundreds of thousands of dollars to Super PACs trying to elect extreme right-wing ideologues here in New York City” and says the court decision will allow millions of more dollars to be injected into campaigns to “elect their tea party friends.”

The election for New York City mayor will be held Nov. 5.