Kentucky Democrat wears noose in new ad attacking Rand Paul

[Polybius]

Source: ABC News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kentucky Democrat Charles Booker appears on camera with a noose around his neck to condemn Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for blocking anti-lynching legislation two years ago — a personally searing ad for a trailblazing Black candidate who says some of his own ancestors were lynched.

The new online ad — which comes with a warning about its content — shows a grisly photo of a lynching victim dangling from a tree. But it fails to mention that Paul co-sponsored a new version of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act that cleared Congress this year and was signed into law by President Joe Biden. The measure, named for the Black teenager whose 1955 killing in Mississippi became a galvanizing moment in the civil rights era, made lynching a federal hate crime.

The ad exemplifies Booker's no-holds-barred approach to confronting racial and economic justice issues in a mostly rural, conservative-leaning state where only about 8% of the population is Black. And it ignores Paul's long-running outreach into mostly Black neighborhoods to discuss criminal justice issues and ways to turn around economically distressed communities, improve schools and combat gun violence.

The libertarian-leaning Paul will face Booker in a November matchup in a state that hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992. The ad shows that Booker, the first Black major party nominee for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, won't shy from raising issues that might make some Kentuckians uncomfortable.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/kentucky-democrat-wears-noose-ad-attacking-rand-paul-85140887

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[wryter2000]

1. It made me squirm

Of course, Rand Paul deserves everything this man can dish out.

[Corgigal]

2. As long as he fights,

throw all that mud. It’s the way we all must go now.

At least he gets it.

[The Mouth]

3. Exactly

Time to use everything at our disposal.

[Bayard]

4. Ehhh....

Not so sure about this. Don't know that it will play well here in Kentucky, but it certainly gets your attention.

Booker is a good guy. We all know what Rand Paul is, but I was unaware of this:

" it fails to mention that Paul co-sponsored a new version of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act that cleared Congress this year and was signed into law by President Joe Biden. The measure, named for the Black teenager whose 1955 killing in Mississippi became a galvanizing moment in the civil rights era, made lynching a federal hate crime."

[yellowdogintexas]

5. there is a very "out there and in your face" ad in the Georgia Senate Campaign

there is some footage of TOG (The Other Guy) and his ridiculous claims and so on. Followed by Senator Reverend Warnock, who could read the phone book and still show TOG to be the fool that he is.

The contrast could not be greater. I have only seen it once but it has to be on You Tube; probably on Meidas or Lincoln.

I hope these two amazing men are in the next Congress!

[Blecht]

6. Doing something

In politics, doing something is always better than turning to focus groups.

What a shocking image. I think people need to be shocked.