Woman angry at Biden buys $500,000 in ads against him

[highplainsdem]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-angry-at-biden-buys-500000-in-ads-against-him/

A wealthy private citizen named Shirley Shawe has purchased $500,000 in ad time in early-voting states to slam Joe Biden over a business dispute that negatively affected her son's company years ago. The ad, which has little to do with 2020 issues, instead focuses on a bit of business arcana, the Delaware Chancery Court system, which was formed to adjudicate business disputes involving Delaware-based corporations.

"The Delaware court is too male, too white and anything but open," the ad's narrator says of court system.

The ad, shown here, bashes the Chancery Court and ties Biden to them, highlighting snippets of a 14-minute exchange in a 2005 Senate hearing between then-Senator Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, who was a Harvard law professor at the time. Shawe's ad accuses Biden of corruptly defending the system as Warren attacks it.

During the 2005 hearing, Biden and Warren argued over the openness and accountability of the bankruptcy courts, which are separate from the Chancery Court, as Warren pointed out to Biden, according to the transcript. But in the ad, the soundbite from the exchange on bankruptcy courts is spliced into criticism of Delaware's Chancery Court, making it seem as though Biden was defending its openness as Warren disputed it.

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Both Biden's and Warren's campaign are now calling for the ad to be taken down.

"The ad misrepresents Vice President Biden's position in this exchange from 2005 by manipulating footage to suggest he means one court when he means another," Biden campaign national press secretary Jamal Brown said in a statement. "It's a clear reminder of the way that third-party money poisons our politics with false attack ads, and it has no place in this race."

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Disgusting, dishonest hit on Biden.

I'm glad the Warren campaign is also opposed to it.


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Editing to add that Shawe is Republican and her media representative made it clear this isn't being done to help Warren.

[Thekaspervote]

1. Idiots and their money...it really is sickening when you think what $500K could do for good

[highplainsdem]

2. I saw some Biden critics on Twitter posting happily about an ad that also involved Warren, and I'm

guessing this is the ad they meant.

They don't care if it's dishonest.

They just want to hurt Biden.

[Thekaspervote]

5. This is so low...worse than Sirota, or not. Fortunately mr.biden has a really strong support base

That won’t be swayed by some kook

[sharedvalues]

7. Republican Plutocrats and their money

[Doodley]

3. Won't change a single vote. I love it when hate-filled Repugnants waste half-a-million dollars.

[Cha]

4. Wow! wonder who this woman's

candidate is?

I appreciate the Warren campaign is on board with wanting the Smear ad down, too.

[highplainsdem]

6. Apparently her candidate is Trump.

[Cha]

8. Oh NO! Well.. that totally

seals her No Credibility!

[Thekaspervote]

12. Indeed!! No more be said

[Polybius]

15. Highly unlikely

"The Delaware court is too male, too white and anything but open," the ad's narrator says of court system.

No Trump supporter would complain about that. Unless you mean she's inadvertently helping Trump with this attack ad?

[highplainsdem]

16. She's a Republican, and her representative has made it clear she didn't do this ad to help Warren.

She might not care if this ad hurts Biden and helps Warren in the primary, because polls show Biden is the stronger candidate against Trump.

But Shawe is a Republican.

Not a Democrat.

Not a Warren supporter.

Her candidate is Trump.

[RhodeIslandOne]

29. Trump supporters have learned attacking from the left is a solid strategy.

[George II]

9. "The Delaware court is too male, too white....", yet Ms. Shawe's son is MALE and WHITE!!!

[madville]

10. Trump's best chance is to not face Biden

Great exhibit of that

[jberryhill]

11. Oh Jeez, not her

She’s nuts. Completely nuts.

[highplainsdem]

17. You know her?

[jberryhill]

19. This had been a long running dispute in Delaware

So tired of these people.

[Tipperary]

26. Is it something we could google?

Now I am curious!

[PoliticAverse]

28. Guess who represented Shirley Shawe...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2017/10/27/should-your-company-incorporate-in-delaware-not-so-fast/#2035a0dc723d

[betsuni]

13. That's really weird.

[MustLoveBeagles]

14. Disgusting

I'm glad that Elizabeth Warren is denouncing this dishonest attack.

[highplainsdem]

18. I wish Warren and Biden would put out a joint vdeo statement denouncing the ad.

Something local stations could easily run.

[MustLoveBeagles]

20. That a great idea

I hope they do it.

[Gothmog]

21. The Delaware Chancery Court is one of the best courts for corporate and business disputes

I have a number of clients who are Delaware entities just to make sure that they have access to this court. The Chancery Court is where the major corporate takeover and control cases are litigated.

[Princetonian]

22. This woman sounds like a GOP surrogate.

[highplainsdem]

24. I'm wondering, too, if the RNC and Trump campaign had anything to do with this.

[Princetonian]

25. Yup. Black ops starting early.

[EveHammond13]

23. another right-wing feces-flinger, unable to control herself

[Midnight Writer]

27. Money is speech. This is not about changing minds. It is to "energize" the Trump base.

[zackymilly]

30. It's her money, but I could rescue a lot of dogs with 500 grand. n/t

[Downtown Hound]

31. If you've got 500k lying around to drop on political ads

I'm guessing your livelihood wasn't hurt all that much.