{"id":5131,"date":"2011-06-17T01:54:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T08:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2011-06-17T01:54:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T08:54:55","slug":"was-the-gop-behind-the-janice-hahn-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/17\/was-the-gop-behind-the-janice-hahn-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the GOP Behind the Janice Hahn Ad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I presume most of you have heard about the racist, sexist ad trashing Janice Hahn, a Democratic candidate for the House.  I almost offered a piece on this yesterday, but choose not to, because her Republican opponent was denying involvement and condemning it in no uncertain terms, so it appeared to be the work of an an unaffiliated wing-nut.  I certainly have no no shortage of unethical\/criminal Republican behavior  from which to draw.  But that was a day ago, and the circumstances have changed.  It now appears likely that the Republican was behind the offensive ad.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"17hahn\"Strippers, guns, gangsters? It may be the norm for Tony Soprano, but as political ads go, this one may just have gone too far. <\/p>\n

Late Wednesday, Democratic congressional candidate Janice Hahn from California’s 36th District released a statement calling for an Federal Election Commission investigation into a possible link between her opponent’s campaign and an ad by the political action committee Turn Right USA<\/strong> [Racist pigs delinked] that blasts her, using a barrage of "gangsters," strippers and guns to try to portray her as soft on criminals and as someone who uses taxpayer dollars to put gang members back on the streets. <\/p>\n

The Republican in the race, Craig Huey, was quick to distance himself from the video, which he says is not affiliated with his campaign. <\/p>\n

The video mentions it was not authorized, and Huey released a statement saying as much: "The ad was not authorized and not affiliated with my campaign. The ad is blatantly racist, and sexist and neither racism nor sexism has any place in the public sphere." <\/p>\n

Despite all the denials, Hahn’s campaign called for an FEC investigation, because the Turn Right USA PAC shares an address in a retail center with an independent consulting firm called <\/strong>CampaignLA<\/strong><\/a>, which was listed in Huey’s FEC filings<\/strong>. In addition, Hahn’s campaign alleges that the domain name used by Turn Right USA<\/strong> (…turnrightusa.org [Racist pigs delinked]) was purchased for them by CampaignLA<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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On Wednesday night, Chris Hayes covered the matter and debunked the video, demonstrating that its  content lacked even a grain of truth.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

I can assure you, due to the volunteer work I do, that former prisoners make the best change agents for convicts seeking to reform, because they command respect in a way that no \u201cstraight John\u201d can.  They understand what convicts are going though, because they have experienced it themselves.<\/font><\/p>\n

Remember that the video precedes the information linking Huey to the video.  If that probability bears out it will prove one thing about Craig Huey, that he is clearly a Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I presume most of you have heard about the racist, sexist ad trashing Janice Hahn, a Democratic candidate for the House.  I almost offered a piece on this yesterday, but choose not to, because her Republican opponent was denying involvement and condemning it in no uncertain terms, so it appeared to be the work of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}