Posted on 08/21/2021 5:10:48 AM PDT by lionstar
KENOSHA — Gov. Tony Evers' re-election campaign is trying to get an attack ad, targeting how the Democrat responded to riots in Kenosha last summer, pulled off the air.
The ad in question features a Kenosha businesswoman who claims that Evers did not send help to Kenosha until after two people — Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum — died; the two men were killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on Aug. 25, the third night of unrest in the city.
Tony for Wisconsin, Evers' campaign, claims the statements in the ad should be considered false advertising, since National Guard troops were deployed to Kenosha less than 12 hours after Jacob Blake, a black man, was shot by a white Kenosha police officer, Rusten Sheskey, who was later cleared of wrongdoing in the case. Repeatedly, Evers' office has said it "met every request the city and county of Kenosha asked us" during the unrest.
On Aug. 24, the second night of protesting, there were 125 National Guardsmen on the ground in Kenosha; on the third night, the night of the Rittenhouse shootings, 250 were on the ground; by the fourth night, there were 750; and 2,000 by the fifth night.
Empower Wisconsin, which brands itself as "Wisconsin's premiere conservative information hub," recently released a pair of attack ads reportedly being aired on four Milwaukee area TV stations; the ads feature Kenosha business owners Scott Carpenter and Kimberly Warner; last year, Warner also appeared in a TV spot last year for a pro-Trump super PAC.
In the advertisements, Carpenter and Warner become emotional as they blame Evers for not more strongly and quickly responding to protests with force after Blake was shot.
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Well, of course, that’s the way the left operates. If you disagree with them then you are pushing disinformation.
The entire MSM was one gigantic attack ad against President Trump for nearly five years, and I don’t recall anyone on our side having any luck getting that “off the air.”
This is obviously one of the Democrat-Left’s new frontiers in their political war against Americans: information, truth, and the definition of those concepts. With them doing the defining.
Along with the whole process of voting, in which they get to define the rules of the process and the definition of what is a “ballot,” what is a “vote,” again with them doing the defining.
They have full media superiority, so they can get away with all kinds of things.
The customary way to address this is to answer the allegation, Tony and not to crush the first amendment. Evers just gave republicans another attack ad. They should be relentless.
Given the opening to the Stupid Party from Sleepy Joe’s collapse, are there any GOP gubernatorial candidates who can take advantage and get rid of Evers??
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