Former NYC Councilman Anthony Como is out with a new TV ad that attacks his Democratic target, Queens Sen. Joe Addabbo (also a former NYC councilman), for voting “124 times” to increase taxes and fees while also going along with $14 billion worth of new spending in the state budget.

There’s nothing particularly surprisingly about the ad, which hews to the standard GOP talking points. The most noteworthy thing is that it exists at all, which underscores the fact that the SRCC thinks Como might have a chance at ousting the freshman Democrat. (Last week, the Republicans transferred $100,000 into Como’s campaign coffers).

Addabbo defeated veteran GOP Sen. Serf Maltese in 2008 to help the Democrats win their slim two-seat hold on the majority. He won decisively (by about 15 percentage points). But a lot has changed since then – most notably, Addabbo voted “no” on the gay marriage bill, which took him off the list of lawmakers the LGBT community is willing to help (although, oddly, he isn’t among those in the crosshairs for defeat, unlike, say, Sen. Bill Stachowski).

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