Senate GOP PAC Spends $700,000 on Misleading Ads
Ballots hit mailboxes across the state this past weekend, which can only mean one thing: bullshit political ads everywhere!
Though the main targets of the biggest independent ad spending so far aren't even facing contested primaries, that hasn’t stopped one shady Republican group from dropping more than $700,000 on misleading ads such as this one. The piece delivers a series of menacing all-caps assertions about Democrats up to mischief in Olympia, and it's worth fact-checking because it previews the general Republican argument against electing Democrats to the state Senate this year.
The ad features all the traditional Republican hits: anti-tax hysteria, vintage 1990’s tough-on-crime rhetoric, and a dash of climate change denialism for good measure.
Democratic Senator Manka Dhingra, the target of the following ad, called the spot a “blatant lie.” (Note: apologies for the poor video quality. For some reason, dark money groups don’t often post studio-quality versions of their ads for fact-checkers to dissect).
https://www.thestranger.com/elections-2022/2022/07/19/76606992/senate-gop-pac-spends-700000-on-misleading-ads
Those are some pretty shitty low-tech ads.
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