An Orlando City Council

campaign flyer features the smiling face of ... President Donald Trump? Candidate says it’s a “low-class, desperate” attempt on the part of her political adversary.

While Orlando City Commissioner Robert Stuart gets out of bed each day to help others, his opponent does the bidding of developers to support a luxurious lifestyle, “just like Donald Trump.”

So says a new flyer in the race to represent College Park and other north Orlando neighborhoods on the City Council. The mailer was paid for by the Central Florida Fairness Fund, a political committee run by two consultants who work for Stuart’s campaign.

The mailer, sent to District 3 voters in the past week, features a photo of Trump smiling and flashing two-thumbsup next to an image of Stuart’s opponent, Asima Azam, and a photo of her home.

“The only person Asima Azam has fought for is herself and representing developers to make enough money to live in her multi-million-dollar mansion,” the mailer says.

Azam called the mailer a “low-class, desperate attempt by Robert to distract people from looking at his record.”

“Now he has my house on a mailer. I don’t know what’s next. Are my children going to be on the next mailer?” she said.

But Stuart’s campaign countered that Azam’s backers were first to bring national politics into the race, citing a flyer by the Florida Cares PAC that called Stuart a “fake Democrat” supported by “Trump fundraiser” Mike Miller, a Republican state representative.

The flyer cited Miller’s role on the host committee for a “Orange County for Trump Cocktail Kickoff” event. A spokeswoman for Miller’s 2018 U.S. House campaign said the event was not a fundraiser.

That mailer also featured a photo of Trump next to one of Stuart.

“It just really hacked me that, [in] what I thought would be a reasonable local race, they started this fearand-smear campaign,” said Jim Kitchens, a pollster for Stuart’s campaign and treasurer for the Central Florida Fairness Fund.

Kitchens said Azam has falsely presented herself as anti-development.

Azam, a real estate attor-

ney for the Orlando-based Divine & Estes firm, said that’s not the case.

“My industry is real estate,” she said. “To the extent that they are trying to make an issue out of that, that’s not something that I have kept secret.”

Azam said did not know who was responsible for the Florida Cares PAC and there was “no coordination” between it and her campaign.

The PAC is run by the nonprofit Organize Florida. Executive Director Stephanie Porta said Azam’s campaign was “absolutely not” involved in the flyer’s design. “Our members voted, and they endorsed Asima, so that’s why our PAC is engaged,” Porta said.

The Central Florida Fairness Fund is chaired by consultant Eric Fogelsong, whose firm has been paid more than $14,000 by Stuart’s campaign this year, financial disclosure records show.

As of its last report, the fund had one contributor, himself a developer: Jim Pugh, chairman of Epoch Properties Inc. and the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, gave $10,000 in September.

But Pugh said he had no role in the mailer’s creation. He said he doesn’t see what Trump has to do with a local election and called the photo of Azam’s home “unnecessary” but added he had backed the PAC because Stuart has “supported a lot of the things that I care about.”

Records show both campaigns have taken in thousands of dollars from developers and people in related fields. Overall, Stuart had brought in more than $155,000 in donations through Oct. 20, compared with more than $100,000 for Azam.

Voters go to the polls Nov. 7. Early voting began Monday.