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WASHINGTON
A Republican Super PAC has found a new way to target Democratic
candidates: Kathy Griffin.
A new ad uses the controversial comedian to criticize Democrat
Jon Ossoff, saying her recent controversial actions are part of
a pattern of behavior from “liberal extremists” who now support
the House candidate running in Georgia’s 6th Congressional
District.
Griffin drew widespread condemnation this week when she was
pictured holding a fake severed head made to look like President
Donald Trump. The head was covered in fake blood.
“Now a celebrity Jon Ossoff supporter is making jokes about
beheading the president of the United States,” a narrator
intones in the ad. “It’s not funny.”
Video of Griffin holding the head appears in the ad, alongside
images of liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and black-hooded
protestors smashing windows.
A spokeswoman for the group running the ad, Congressional
Leadership Fund, said it is not yet on air in the Atlanta
suburban district. But the group, which is spending $6.5 million
on the closely watched special election, could decide to use it
in the weeks before the June 20 election, said Ruth Guerra.
An official with the Ossoff campaign, in a statement, called the
ad a “disgrace.”
“Jon Ossoff believes what Kathy Griffin did was despicable and
for Karen Handel’s Super PAC to say otherwise is a disgrace,”
said Ossoff spokeswoman Sacha Haworth. “Karen Handel should
immediately demand this ad be pulled before any more children
have to see these disturbing images on TV.”
The use of Griffin is an unusual tack in race that has otherwise
been about Ossoff’s and Republican Karen Handel’s backgrounds,
national security and health care. But in a race that has been
saturated in spending by the candidates and outside groups,
trying a new approach (if the ad does run on TV) might be an
attempt to break through with voters who have grown weary of all
the TV ads on the race.
Ossoff faces Handel in a race that has drawn national attention
as an early test of Trump’s popularity in a district he narrowly
won during last year’s election. Ossoff is seen as a slight
favorite, although both sides say the contest could still go
either way.
Griffin has apologized for the picture, but the controversy has
nonetheless cost her endorsements and a job co-hosting CNN’s
coverage of New Year’s Eve.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics- government/congress/article153806769.html
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