Posted on 06/02/2022 10:51:21 AM PDT by RandFan
In a provocative and controversial push, the Democratic Senate nominee who’s challenging Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky in November’s midterm election wears a noose in a new ad criticizing Paul’s past opposition to a measure to make lynching a federal hate crime.
But the spot, by former state lawmaker Charles Booker, makes no mention that Paul later supported an updated anti-lynching bill that is now law.
"The pain of our past persists to this day. In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool of terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom," Booker, who is Black, says in the ad released Wednesday.
"It was used to kill my ancestors," Booker emphasizes, as the spot reveals the candidate with a noose around his neck. "Now, in a historic victory for our commonwealth, I have become the first Black Kentuckian to receive the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate."
Taking aim at Paul, a former Republican presidential candidate who’s running this year for a third six-year term representing Kentucky in the Senate, Booker argues that the senator is "the person who single-handedly blocked an anti-lynching act from being federal law."
Paul in 2020 held up legislation that would have made lynching a federal hate crime, saying at the time he was worried it could be applied too broadly. But the senator went on to co-sponsor the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act, which was authored by Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Cory Booker, D-N.J. The bill passed the Senate three months ago and is now federal law.
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Did he spray himself with diluted bleach, too?
Better yet, he should Livestream himself hanging himself in front of Paul’s house.
A solid campaign strategy.
Wow. Now that is a desperate act by a desperate man. And he didn’t even mention the Subway sandwich!
“a measure to make lynching a federal hate crime”
Yes, because there was such a rash of lynchings in recent decades that existing legislation just couldn’t deal with it...
Another black man faking a noise incident. Go figure.
We need common sense rope control laws!
Prove it, I seriously doubt any of his grandparents were lynched.
Did he happen to mention that it was a 'tool of terror' used by Democrats?
Desperate times...
Desperate times...
Perfect opportunity for a history lesson about anti-lynching laws and the political parties which respectively sponsored and opposed them.
What a f’in pile of sheet this guy is..............
What a cheapa**, lame shot. Shameless.
Noose ... not noise. Darn typos.
I wonder if his noose was part of the Juicy Smohyay signature series.
Drama Queen
He’s a Democrat who can fit in with the DNC proper ... kinda goes with the territory.
hopefully holding his subway sandwich too.
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