It’s an eye-for-an-eye as the Democratic AG primary comes down to the wire.

Following Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice’s release of a “comparative” (AKA “negative”) ad that slammed Sen. Eric Schneiderman for being a creature of Albany and sought to link him to Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., the Manhattan lawmaker’s campaign is out with a hit of its own.

After Ms. Rice decided to tell lies about Eric Schneiderman’s record, we decided to tell the truth about hers,” said Schniederman campaign manager Emily Arsenault.

“While her smear campaign relies on character assassination and guilt by association, this response is based on established and objective facts. Rice was in fact a registered Republican, she did indeed lobby her senator to oppose the Rockefeller Drug Law reforms, and she absolutely did force part-time working mothers in her office to work full-time or quit. New Yorkers deserve better than, and on Tuesday they will get just that.”

The ad basically reiterates all the points laid out against Rice in Schneiderman’s mailer – she used to be a Republican, lobbied against reform of the Rockefeller Drug Laws, and told part-time working mothers in the DA’s office to either return to work full-time or not come back at all.

There’s also an excerpt from the Times endorsement of Schneiderman in which the paper deemed Rice to have only a “limited” grasp of the challenges facing the AG. And then the spot goes on to highlight “progressive” Schneiderman’s record.

There’s also a robocall, which, as Maggie Haberman reported earlier today, has caused a Rice surrogate, RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum, to cry foul.

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