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New Dem ad uses Paterno, KKK, affair allegations to tar GOP leaders
Source: The Hill
BY SCOTT WONG AND MIKE LILLIS - 08/17/18 04:31 PM EDT
Escalating its anti-corruption message, a top Democratic super PAC on Friday launched a blistering web ad designed to portray House Republicans as irredeemably unethical ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
The 30-second ad, sponsored by the House Majority PAC, which has close ties to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), highlights a series of scandals some of them decades old surrounding a handful of prominent Republicans hoping to replace retiring Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). The spot is certain to be controversial since some of the allegations remain unproven or under investigation.
At one point, the narrator invokes allegations that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), whos running for Speaker, failed to protect student athletes from a sexual predator when he was an Ohio State wrestling coach decades ago a charge Jordan vehemently denies.
Remind you of Joe Paterno? the narrator says, referencing the legendary football coach who was accused of covering up a child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/402402-new-dem-ad-uses-paterno-affair-allegations-to-tar-gop-leaders
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New Dem ad uses Paterno, KKK, affair allegations to tar GOP leaders (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2018
OP
This ad needs to be played in every republican senate and house seat and down into the legislature
turbinetree
Aug 2018
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cstanleytech
(26,299 posts)1. Its about time that the gloves have come off in my opinion.
Our guys have bent themselves into pretzels more than enough for the Repugnants and they need to have a stiffer spine and come at them hard and fast if we ever want to win back our country from them.
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)4. And who's taking those gloves off?
Why, it's the old lady who needs to be replaced!
LiberalFighter
(50,967 posts)13. Thumbs up
4139
(1,893 posts)2. "web ad"
😐
Exactly 😴
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)3. Good. They're All the Same.
Nazi types, mobbed up crooked, sexually deviant, insanely stupid and incompetent.
deurbano
(2,895 posts)5. GOPerves
Gothmog
(145,359 posts)6. This is a great ad
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)7. Hope it works...have my doubts...
jmbar2
(4,899 posts)8. I dunno....
The Reperves have already demonstrated that they don't care about the morality of their leaders as long as they beat up on people of color, immigrants, teh gays, and women who want to control their reproduction.
They're happy to elect profoundly immoral men to regulate other people's morality.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)10. Yes, the gloves are off.....great ad, thanks for posting...k and r.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)11. Damn that's good. Feels cathartic
RainCaster
(10,892 posts)12. Web ad? That belongs on the evening news!
This needs to be all over Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)14. This ad needs to be played in every republican senate and house seat and down into the legislature