Elizabeth Holtzman was excluded from Wednesday night's PIX11 House debate, a former congressman and district attorney from Brooklyn, and one of her main supporters. Provoked a protest from one National Assembly. organization for women.
PIX 11 said Holtzman failed to get her required 5% in a recently released poll. She got her 4.1% endorsement.
"The Supreme Court is eliminating women's rights. PIX 11 should not silence women's voices," she told The Post on Tuesday night.
Holtzman notes that PIX 11 relies heavily on text polling voters who argued they were underestimating older people because they were older — hence older candidates who are proven voters.
"It's surprising that someone who played an important role in New York's political history is left out," she said.
Sonia Ossorio, head of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, who supported Holtzmann, also yelled a foul.
"Older voters are running for public office after being kicked out of the debate stage because of polls that underestimate older voters. Older voters are the most unreliable voters on the planet." said Ossorio.
She said Holtzmann was a "formidable" candidate who was "repeatedly elected to multiple public offices."
Candidate Dan Goldmanis the House Democrat's chief counsel during the first impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump, and a PIX/Emerson College investigation put him at 1 After finishing in 1st place, we plan to enter the budget stage. His 22% support from polled Democratic voters .
Working Family Party MP Yuh-Line Niouwas elected with 17% support, followed by MP Carlina Rivera and Suburban Rep. Mondea Jones each at 13%, and Congressman Jo Ann Simon at 6%.
PIX 11 executive his producer John Tummino defended the debate standard Tuesday night.
"We have outlined the criteria for discussion. We will stick to the standards of debate," Tummino told The Post.
PIX 11 also posted on Tuesday night. This included Holtzman's campaign email from her July 19th email from her manager, Marlene O'Brien.
Holzmann is not the only candidate to complain.
Parent activist and former legal aid attorney Maud Maron She sued when she was not cut in NY1's recent debate over candidates for the 10th congressional district. Holzmann participated in that debate involving six candidates.
The one hour PIX 11 debate will take place at 8pm. Wednesday at CUNY's Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.
The newly drawn 10th congressional district stretches from Greenwich Village through Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn, Brownstone, Sunset Park, and parts of Borough Park to the south.
