Two Kentucky miners shown in Amy McGrath (Dem senate candidate) ad want it taken down. Here's why.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article234737737.html

Two miners shown in a campaign ad for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath have sent a cease and desist letter demanding the campaign stop using their images, but the campaign said Thursday that both men signed a form giving their permission to appear in the commercial.

The ad, which McGrath launched August 23, featured a reenactment of a group of miners who made a 10 hour bus trip to Washington D.C. to ask U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to restore a higher tax on coal companies to help fund the federal Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. Some of the miners were disappointed that McConnell only spent a brief time with them.

Two of the miners who went on the trip and were featured in the ad, Randy Robbins and Albrow Hall, said through an attorney that they were led to believe the footage was being used for a documentary for the Black Lung Association and that they “did not know and were never told they were being filmed for a political advertisement”

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The McGrath campaign pushed back at the miners’ claim they were unaware the filming was for an ad, pointing out that both miners signed release forms. The forms, though, granted permission for Putnam Partners, McGrath’s ad consultant, to use their image in “promotional materials.” It did not mention McGrath by name.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. It was not smart for the McGrath campaign to do this.

Why create problems when you don't need to?

I imagine there are plenty of coal miners willing to be in her ads.

[cabot]

2. IF they weren't informed it was a political ad

I can't say I blame them. However, one would think a person would ask, "hey, what is this for?" before agreeing to be in it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. The excerpt in the OP talks about how the two miners thought they were doing something for the

Black Lung Association.

[marble falls]

4. I think highly of McGrath but she needs to edit out these guys out of her ad.

[blm]

5. Really dumb move by ad consultant is dumb move by campaign

Damn.

[AJT]

6. The ad should be taken down and an apology to the 2 men would be a good idea.

[exboyfil]

8. And someone needs to be fired

Unless she knew about the terms of the agreement and went forward. In that case, she has even bigger problems.

[Thekaspervote]

9. This..even if they did know it won't help her campaign or change votes

[Arazi]

7. She should immediately take it down. It's already scorched #MoscowMitch enough

It's done what needed to be done

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Or maybe they got $ to voice their unhappiness with being in the ad.

Sorry, I always wonder how Republicans use their money to ratfuck Democrats.

[Jake Stern]

11. Bad look

Her ad firm needs to be transparent that the footage will be used by the campaign of XXXX for XXXXX.

However I don’t discount the idea they may have known but backtracked after getting shit from family and neighbors.

Either way her team needs to edit them out and offer an apology.