Schneiderman's First Ad for Attorney General

by dan rivoli

eric schneiderman, the attorney general candidate from the upper west side, is out with his first television ad of the campaign.

titled "schneiderman interrupted," the spot shows the state senator trying to introduce himself to voters but keeps being interrupted by people thanking him for his work.

a woman pushing a stroller thanks schneiderman for getting drug dealers out of her building--a reference to being counsel to the west side crime prevention program.

a cop thanks him for keeping illegal guns off the street. a professionally dressed man thanks him for the drug treatment program that kept him out of jail and gave him a "second chance," a reference to schneiderman's work to end the onerous rockefeller drug laws.

ending the drug laws helped earn him the endorsement of the amsterdam news, new york's oldest black-owned newspapers.

schneiderman joins attorney sean coffey and kathleen rice, the nassau county district attorney, in putting up an ad.