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Jilly_in_VA

(11,080 posts)
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 01:11 PM Feb 2022

In Western-style ad, GOP Senate candidate shoots at actors playing Biden, Pelosi, Sen. Mark Kelly

A Republican businessman seeking his party’s nomination to face Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) in the fall has released a new Western-style TV ad in which the candidate, dressed as a sheriff, fires a gun at actors portraying Kelly, President Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

The candidate, energy executive Jim Lamon, said in a tweet that the ad will air during the Super Bowl.

Kelly is the husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot in the head while greeting constituents outside a Tucson supermarket in 2011. Six people were killed in the shooting rampage and many others were injured.

Shannon Watts, the founder of the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, called the ad “disgusting.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/10/campaign-ad-senate-candidate-shoots-gun-actors-playing-biden-pelosi-sen-mark-kelly-whose-wife-gabby-giffords-was-injured-arizona-rampage/
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Leave it to the GQPers to lower the bar.

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In Western-style ad, GOP Senate candidate shoots at actors playing Biden, Pelosi, Sen. Mark Kelly (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Feb 2022 OP
I do not understand how an ad such as this can be allowed to air,,,, KarenS Feb 2022 #1
Thank you Jilly, K&R chocolatpi Feb 2022 #2

KarenS

(4,688 posts)
1. I do not understand how an ad such as this can be allowed to air,,,,
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 01:38 PM
Feb 2022

Shouldn't the Secret Service come visit this 'candidate'??

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