NEW YORK, NY October 27, 2005 —The Mayoral candidates traded jabs yesterday on who had better plans for the city's renters. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has more.

REPORTER: Democrat Fernando Ferrer picked up the endorsement of TENANTs PAC, a protenants lobby. The group praised Ferrer's record on affordable housing, and critized Mayor Bloomberg for not supporting legislation that would give the city, rather than the state, power over its its own rent control laws.

Ferrer said renters who vote for Bloomberg do so at their peril.

FERRER: Any tenant who votes for Mike Bloomberg is a little like the chickens voting for colonel sanders.

REPORTER: A Bloomberg campaign spokesman said the Mayor thinks it would be expensive for the city to administer its own rent control laws. The spokesman also accused Ferrer of supporting a landlord-sponsored bill in the 1990's that required rent deposits. Ferrer's campaign called that a "recycled charge."