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Syracuse.com

By Mike McAndrew | mmcandrew@syracuse.com

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A minority owner of the Vernon Downs racetrack says he’ll spend $100,000 this year to unseat state Sen. John DeFrancisco and other senators who won’t pass a bill to allow child sexual abuse survivors like himself sue their abusers.

DeFrancisco, the Senate deputy majority leader from Syracuse, is going to be the No. 1 target of the new Fighting for Children PAC that Gary Greenberg says he’s in the process of forming.

Greenberg, a 57-year-old businessman from New Baltimore, said he’s targeting DeFrancisco because of the senator’s outspoken opposition to a pending bill that would eliminate the civil and criminal statute of limitations for child sexual abuse crimes going forward and create a one-year window for victims to sue for abuses committed decades ago.

“There are a lot of cases where these perpetrators, because of the statute of…