Whoever “Bradley Bynes” is, he’s a liar — at least according to Republican First Congressional District hopeful Dean Young.
Young and fellow Republican Bradley Byrne are locked in a tight battle for the GOP nomination in AL-01 with only a day to go.
The campaign has turned extremely negative in recent weeks as both Byrne and Young have taken direct shots at each other. Byrne called Young a “political moneyman with a self-dealing past” and said he “fools Christians for his own profit.” Young has inundated phone lines and mail boxes with a deluge of vitriol aimed at Byrne.
Third-party groups supporting both candidates have also jumped in the fray with hit pieces.
But over the weekend, the Young campaign went… well… ghetto.
In a pair of digital ads that were initially seen running on popular news aggregator DrudgeReport.com, Young went back to the most basic of all attacks — he simply called his opponent a liar. The problem? Well, in addition to the rudimentary photoshop work, the Young campaign misspelled their opponent’s name.
To their credit, they got Byrne’s name right in the second ad. And the photoshop work… immaculate.
The election is set for tomorrow. Baldwin County Republican Party Chairman Matt Simpson summed up the feelings of most of south Alabama last week when he posted on Facebook, “By this time next week ALL THE ROBOCALLS WILL STOP!”
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