Posted on 10/25/2014 11:20:36 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Palmer casts Dr. Ralph Alvarado as drug dealer in negative campaign ad using spliced courtroom footage
In perhaps the nastiest ad of the 2014 Kentucky electoral season, state Sen. R.J. Palmer’s campaign portrays his Republican opponent, Dr. Ralph Alvarado, essentially as a drug dealer.
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Transcript:
Judge: What’s he on? Police officer: OxyContin. Judge: Where’s it from? Defendant: Dr. Ralph Alvarado… Judge: The one running for state senator? Judge: Oh my Lord.
The ad then features a narrator declaring it’s “No wonder Dr. Ralph Alvarado called Kentucky’s pill mill law a ‘lousy piece of legislation.’ He’s getting rich off addiction.”
The ad then cuts back to the courtroom to the police officer telling the judge the defendant has $3,000 worth of pills, to which the judge says, “You have got to be kidding me.”
Here is the ad as it aired Friday morning:
However, Republicans and attorneys say the ad crossed a major line when the courtroom video was spliced by the Palmer campaign.
The actual conversation takes place when the judge orders the defendant to take a drug test before discovering a grocery bag full of prescription pills.
Transcript:
Judge: Oh my Lord. What’s he on? Police officer: Got a bag full of stuff. Inaudible Judge: Where’s it from? Defendant: Dr. Ralph Alvarado. Judge: The one that’s running for state senator? Defendant: Yeah. I was a brick layer and I got hurt on the job. Judge: So you got valid prescriptions for what all?
A video of the November 2010 court proceeding obtained by Pure Politics shows that the conversation did not happen the way the Palmer campaign has made it appear.
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Alvarado? Drug dealer? It sounds as though Palmer is a big league RACIST indulging in a little racial profiling here. Throw his ass in jail! Where’s Eric the Holder on this!!!
This is an ugly, nasty place, it never surprises me that the politics is ugly and nasty too.
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