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TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts)
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 04:53 AM Sep 2018

Fearful mother in ad attacking Sharice Davids is a Kansas GOP official

A fearful mother stares into a camera and warns that Democratic candidate Sharice Davids will put her four children at risk.

In a new ad from a super PAC linked to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Alana Roethle of Leawood, Kansas, calls Davids “too risky for Kansas families.”

What Roethle does not say in the ad is that she is secretary of the Kansas Republican Party and a member of the Kansas Lottery Commission, who was appointed to her seat by then-Gov. Sam Brownback in 2015.

In the ad, she parrots a GOP talking point about the Johnson County Democrat’s position on border security in the ad that contrasts footage of Roethle’s smiling children against images of shadowy hooded figures and protests.

Read more: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article217986000.html

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Fearful mother in ad attacking Sharice Davids is a Kansas GOP official (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
Most excellant! Maxheader Sep 2018 #1

Maxheader

(4,424 posts)
1. Most excellant!
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 08:57 AM
Sep 2018

Whats the deal? gOp can't afford an actor? Their elected officals
resorting to drama queens? Question is...will the voters buy into
the hypocrisy?


Roethle has long-standing ties to both the state and national GOP. She served as a delegate at the 2016 Republican convention and attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to her biography on the state party’s website.


Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article217986000.html#storylink=cpy

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