Republicans fund television ads and mailers for Our Reolution-backed candidate in Florida [View all]
A slew of campaign mailers and TV ads pushing for Gainesville Democrat Olysha Magruder in Senate District 8 were outed as being tied to GOP operatives Thursday night, prompting TV stations in the Gainesville media market pull the pro-Magruder ads from the airwaves.
Gainesville physician Kayser Enneking, who is running against Magruder in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, had sent cease and desist letters through attorney Mark Herron on Monday seeking to get the local ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates to stop running the ads.
The stations capitulated Friday after an article by Andrew Caplan of the Gainesville Sun demonstrated a clear connection between Leiann McInnis, the registered agent of the committee slamming Fort Lauderdale Sen. Gary Farmer in the SD 34 Democratic primary, and the “dark money” ad push in favor of Magruder.
As previously reported, the pro-Magruder TV ads were signed for by Washington DC consultant Jamie Andrus, who is also on the payroll of the anti-Farmer political committee Moms Speak Out.
The TV ads and the mailers were additionally suspect based on their attribution to an Ocala-based non-profit known as Liberation Ocala African American Council (LOACC). It is illegal for non-profits such as LOAAC to produce political ads.
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