AZ: 'Disgusting': Republican Senate hopeful condemned over 'showdown' TV ad

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

‘Disgusting’: Republican Senate hopeful condemned over ‘showdown’ TV ad

Jim Lamon’s ad depicts ‘shootout’ with Democrats including Mark Kelly, senator whose wife Gabby Giffords was shot in deadly attack

Gloria Oladipo
@gaoladipo
Fri 11 Feb 2022 16.16 GMT

A Republican Senate primary candidate in Arizona has been condemned for a “disgusting” campaign ad in which he shoots at lookalike actors portraying Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and the incumbent Arizona senator Mark Kelly.

Jim Lamon, an energy executive, shared the ad on Twitter, saying it would be aired at this year’s Super Bowl.

Lamon would face Kelly in a general election in the autumn should he secure the Republican nomination.

Kelly is the husband of the former Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was shot in the head in 2011 while greeting constituents outside of a local grocery store.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/11/republican-senate-candidate-jim-lamon-arizona

[CBHagman]

1. Thank you for posting this.

I spotted the story the other day at another online new site and then looked at Lamon's Twitter account. All the usual dog whistles and conspiracy theories and whatnot were in place.

And the use of violent imagery is not new, but it's another indication of where the right wing is in this country.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Lamon is a NAZI willing to visualize political murder.

Legitimate political discourse is just their latest euphemism to lurch discussion to the right.

They no longer care if they’re seen as murderers in pursuit of political power.