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A slew of campaign mailers and TV ads pushing for Gainesville Democrat Olysha Magruder in Senate District 8 were outed as being tied to GOP operatives Thursday night, prompting TV stations in the Gainesville media market pull the pro-Magruder ads from the airwaves.
Gainesville physician Kayser Enneking, who is running against Magruder in Tuesdays Democratic primary, had sent cease and desist letters through attorney Mark Herron on Monday seeking to get the local ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates to stop running the ads.
The stations capitulated Friday after an article by Andrew Caplan of the Gainesville Sun demonstrated a clear connection between Leiann McInnis, the registered agent of the committee slamming Fort Lauderdale Sen. Gary Farmer in the SD 34 Democratic primary, and the dark money ad push in favor of Magruder.
As previously reported, the pro-Magruder TV ads were signed for by Washington DC consultant Jamie Andrus, who is also on the payroll of the anti-Farmer political committee Moms Speak Out.
The TV ads and the mailers were additionally suspect based on their attribution to an Ocala-based non-profit known as Liberation Ocala African American Council (LOACC). It is illegal for non-profits such as LOAAC to produce political ads.
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/272885-with-gop-ties-revealed-tv-stations-pull-olysha-magruder-ads
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)brush
(53,843 posts)WTF now? How blatant can they get?
RandySF
(59,221 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)mopinko
(70,208 posts)she did it all above board.
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)SunSeeker
(51,694 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)they can paint them as "socialists" to the uneducated and they will follow them like sheep again.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)against the Democratic Party since its beginnings. And before that, Trump, the right's dark-money donors and Russia were all promoting Bernie Sanders as a victim of corrupt Democrats to create and direct useful idiots.
And here we are.
ZX86
(1,428 posts)"...Klarman has a long history of donating to the GOP, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Klarman has donated to candidates, political action committees and the Republican National Committee."
"...spending more than $7 million on Republicans and their organizations while Barack Obama was president."
https://www.newsweek.com/seth-klarman-donald-trump-baupost-group-tax-cut-887565
RandiFan1290
(6,242 posts)over the Democratic nominee for Senate.
They helped split the vote and elected Marco Rubio to the Senate.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The 2010 situation was people making independent evaluations. The situation in my district is republicans using OR and dark money to attack a strong democrat. Please stay focused.
RandySF
(59,221 posts)This is a taking Republican help in a primary, just like Abdul did in Michigan.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)She launched a two fisted attack against Kayser. Kayser is staying above board, focusing on issues. Olysha has bashed Hillary, claimed to be backed by progressive African Americans. She was on my primary ballot, I have voted already, I sniffed her out a few weeks ago, I voted for Kayser without a second thought.
RandySF
(59,221 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)evens out the voter registration numbers, to roughly the same number of democrats and republicans. Alachua County has voted for the democrat for President in the last 7 elections, at went narrowly for Bush Senior as the last repugh to win it. Marion County is roughly the opposite, in the last 58 years, Kennedy and Carter in 76 are the only democrats to win Marion County, President Obama came the next closest in 2008. The margin for the republican has increased, with Trump hitting a high in 2016. What the area needs is more high tech businesses, right now it is stodgy warehousing, distribution and healthcare delivery. If we can shift the demographics to younger, better educated, we can begin to eliminate the republican advantage in Marion County and mirror Alachua County more.