The first negative advertisement in the GOP race to challenge Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Out Of Touch) has hit YouTube. The web video targets GOP candidate Joe Kaufman. The video was posted by “Videoforthe” on February 8, 2012. Another videos posted include attacks on George LeMieux and Mitt Romney.
The video smears Kaufman as a “bigot”, a “racist”, and a “one trick pony”. The video is posted on Facebook in an attempt to have it go “viral”. It appears the Facebook posting was done by a “fake” Facebook account.
Joe Kaufman tells RED BROWARD:
“[The video] is a lame attempt by the Karen Harrington campaign to make me look bad. It is a desperate attempt.” As for the charges leveled in the video, Kaufman says a corrected FEC reports “shows we raised more money than Karen Harrington; So far we have raised over 100k.” Kaufman states the “one issue” remark comes courtesy of slick editing by Comedy Central’s The Daily Show–Kaufman says the one issue is “defeating Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”
We attempted to reach the Harrington campaign for comment. It appears the team is attending CPAC conference in Washington D.C.
This video is a violation of the Federal Election Laws in that it does not clearly state who is publishing the material and who is responsible for it. It must state these facts or it a Federal Crime. I’m sure the Kaufman campaign will take swift action .
Joe Kaufman is right. Our only issue needs to be beating Debbie. Leave it Karen to play dirty like her good friend Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Typical behavior from the Harrington camp. Nice of her to use Manjarres fake Facebook profile Ed McGlint to promote the video. They aren’t fooling anyone.
goldner still running his basement campaign, I see..
Typcial behavior from Bustamante Manjarres Harrington & Co.
Typical of Karen Harrington and her companions to attack Joe Kaufman who is more genuine that KH can ever be to go so low to discredit a great candidate. It’s disgusting. Shame on you Karen Harrington and your bad boys.
Remember, folks, what goes around, comes around. This may be funny to some today, but the bottom line is, “They have NOTHING great to say about Harrington.” Why not video and shout Harrington’s accomplishments? Harrington was endorsed by CAIR, shout that. If Joe Kaufman wasn’t a threat to Harrington’s election, do you think they would bother creating a funny video about Kaufman? Can’t wait to see Ozzie DeFaria’s video and what about Joe Goldner? Better yet, when will the video come out about the new CD-20 candidate, Gineen Bresso? Compare Bresso’s resume with Harrington’s? Bresso looks pretty classy. If all you can campaign on is mud slinging, go take a bath. This election is serious business. Is this your plan for Congress? Replace Joe Kaufman with Debbie Wasserman Schultz in this video. DWS is the target to poke at. Get your priorities straight or “Get the hell out of the race.” You’re wasting our time. and your contributors’ money. You stil owe yourself ~ $200K. LOL!!!
Karen is running again just to re-coup some of her money from her last campaign.
We have heard this before – that she is running again to recoup some of her money from her last campaign. Thanks, Customer of Hers. If it’s true that political blasphemy is illegal, maybe some of the candidates ought to save some of their contributor’s hard earned contributions for lawsuits.
Just sayin’