High Maryland Democrats are condemning a brand new advert from an excellent PAC supporting Republican U.S. Senate nominee Larry Hogan that seems to lump his opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, in with “corrupt” politicians from the majority-Black county the place Alsobrooks is the highest elected official.
“The latest Larry Hogan ad is yet another example of Larry Hogan adopting Donald Trump’s politics of character assassination,” mentioned Reps. Steny Hoyer and Glenn Ivey, the 2 Democrats who signify Maryland’s Prince George’s County within the U.S. Home, in a press release to HuffPost. “It’s a scurrilous attempt to smear Prince George’s County and the people who live here. Just this weekend, we heard deeply offensive rhetoric about Puerto Rico during Donald Trump’s rally.”
The brand new advert from the Maryland’s Future PAC, which helps Hogan, begins: “PG County is full of corrupt politicians. Then there’s Angela Alsobrooks.” It’s considered one of at the very least dozens of adverts from either side which have saturated airwaves in deep-blue Maryland forward of subsequent week’s election.
The advert then manufacturers Alsobrooks a “tax cheat” primarily based on a report that the Prince George’s County official improperly claimed tax credit she didn’t qualify for — together with a senior residents tax break on a house beforehand owned by her grandparents in Washington, D.C., and a homestead tax exemption for a Maryland rental property.
Alsobrooks has tried to rectify the state of affairs, nevertheless it’s nonetheless given Republicans fodder to go after her in an unexpectedly aggressive blue-state race that includes Maryland’s former Republican governor. She mentioned throughout an debate with Hogan earlier this month that she paid off the again taxes owed on the Washington property, which she offered six years in the past, and is working now to repay the curiosity.
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Hogan has tried to distance himself from the GOP to win crossover votes by convincing voters he’d be an impartial voice for Maryland within the Senate. However Democrats have sought to remind voters that Hogan as soon as espoused a much less progressive stance on reproductive rights and would in the end caucus with Republicans in Washington.
“It is disappointing to see the old governor reverting to the dirty tricks of politics that for Marylanders is exhausting at this point. The excitement around his campaign is coming from outside of the state of Maryland, while the excitement around her campaign is coming from everyday Marylanders,” mentioned Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, the Democrat who succeeded Hogan.
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen, whose retirement cleared the trail for Alsobrooks to run for the seat, additionally blasted Hogan and his allies. The advert was put out by an excellent PAC that doesn’t coordinate with Hogan’s marketing campaign, and neither group responded to a request for remark.
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“Larry Hogan and his supporters are taking a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook in attempting to slander the character of not only Angela Alsobrooks but also the people of Prince George’s County. This is simply not who we are as Marylanders. This super PAC ad is another attempt to distract voters from the real issues and flood our airwaves with disgusting attacks. While it’s disappointing to see her opponent’s supporters stoop to such lows, it’s no surprise when they are funded by MAGA Republicans who want control of the Senate,” Van Hollen mentioned.
Hoyer and Ivey additionally known as the advert “offensive” and “wrong” in its try to “denigrate” the character of Prince George’s County, which borders Washington.
“You cannot claim you want to represent the entire state in the U.S. Senate if you’ve already decided that 960,000 people are ‘corrupt.’ That’s what Larry Hogan has decided to do alongside his billionaire allies in this latest ad.”
