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TexasTowelie

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Sun Sep 9, 2018, 08:12 AM Sep 2018

New Bill Schuette attack ad uses doctored photo of Gretchen Whitmer taken the day she testified

New Bill Schuette attack ad uses doctored photo of Gretchen Whitmer taken the day she testified about her own sexual assault


Michigan Attorney General and Republican candidate for governor Bill Schuette has a new ad out suggesting that his Democratic opponents Gretchen Whitmer and her running mate Garlin Gilchrist are Hamas sympathizers that hate law enforcement agencies. On its face, it’s shitty ad that shows just how desperate Schuette is now that he’s at least 9 points down in recent polling.

But it really goes well beyond and below that. In the ad, you see numerous shots of Whitmer’s face looking unhappy. They’ve been doctored to make her look threatening and scary:



What makes this so contemptible and disgraceful is that, as I have confirmed with Robert McCann, Whitmer’s spokesperson while she was the Senate Democratic Leader, the photo of her in Schuette’s odious ad was taken while she was sitting in her seat on the floor of the senate, watching the now-(in)famous “plan ahead for your rape” rape insurance bill that Republicans pushed through on December 11, 2013:

Just prior to that vote on a bill that would require women to get a special rider on their health insurance that would cover getting an abortion in the case of rape, Whitmer gave a powerful floor speech which went viral nationally in which she talked about her own experience as a survivor of sexual assault:



Read more: http://www.eclectablog.com/2018/09/disgraceful-new-bill-schuette-attack-ad-uses-doctored-photo-of-gretchen-whitmer-taken-the-day-she-testified-about-her-own-sexual-assault.html
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New Bill Schuette attack ad uses doctored photo of Gretchen Whitmer taken the day she testified (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
I hope he goes down in flames. llmart Sep 2018 #1
Much needed high colonic in Michigan in November. gibraltar72 Sep 2018 #2

llmart

(15,532 posts)
1. I hope he goes down in flames.
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 11:25 AM
Sep 2018

Schuette is a despicable ass. I find it very interesting that Snyder wouldn't endorse him in the race, probably because he appointed him. Either he doesn't think he'd make a good governor or Snyder's name is mud in Michigan for the Flint water crisis debacle.

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