With mere days remaining in the presidential campaign, Bronx Congressman Eliot Engel spent some time campaigning for fellow Democrat Barrack Obama in Florida.
Engel spokesman Joe O’Brien said the Obama campaign reached out to Engel “because of his appeal to transplanted New Yorkers now living there.”
“I am very familiar with the area since my mother used to live there and I visited her often,” Engel said in a statement. “Carrying Florida is vital to getting elected to the presidency, and I was glad to be able to meet and campaign with Senator Obama, and hopefully to help him carry the state.” —Alex Kratz
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