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U.S. NEWS Monday 22 october 2018

PAC won't end ad saying black

men will face rape accusations

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A moved from the Missouri ad jurisdiction over federal
political action commit- because the attorney for a PACs.
tee said Friday that it won't St. Louis radio station de- Tucker and Democrats are
pull radio ads in hotly con- manded it be left out be- relying in part on heavy
tested races in Arkansas fore the station would run it. turnout from African-Amer-
and Missouri that suggest Instead of mentioning "race icans to flip the 2nd District
African American men will verdicts, life sentences and seat, which covers Little
face rape accusations if lynchings when a white Rock and seven central Ar-
Democrats win midterm girl screams rape," the Mis- kansas counties.
elections. souri ad talks about "race The North Carolina-based
An ad from Black Ameri- verdicts, life sentences or PAC was formed earlier this This combination of 2018 file photos shows Arkansas Congres-
sional candidates, Democrat Clarke Tucker, left, and Republi-
cans for the President's worse." year and this week report- can U.S. Rep. French Hill.
Agenda in an Arkansas But Robinson said, "The re- ed having about $52,507 Associated Press
congressional race features ality is, every black person cash on hand and $62,769
a woman saying "white in St. Louis knows what 'or in debt. Robinson is a for- olina, who has run unsuc- aimed at drafting Ben Car-
Democrats will be lynch- worse' means." mer city councilman from cessfully for Congress in the son into the 2016 presiden-
ing black folk again." Both Both ads invoke the accu- Winston-Salem, North Car- state and led a super PAC tial race.q
the Republican incumbent sation that Supreme Court
and his Democratic chal- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
lenger have condemned it, sexually assaulted a wom-
and the Arkansas GOP filed an when he was a teen-
a state ethics complaint ager. The ad implies that
over it. Democrats' support for Ka-
In Missouri, the radio ad vanaugh's accuser means
favoring Republican chal- black men wouldn't be
lenger Josh Hawley and protected from unfounded
attacking Democratic U.S. rape claims.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, does In both ads, a woman says
not mention lynching. In- that she is voting for the Re-
stead, the woman says that publican candidate to pro-
if Democrats prevail in mid- tect "our men and boys."
term elections, "black folk In the Arkansas ad, for Re-
will be catching hell again" publican U.S. Rep. French
and that black men could Hill against Democratic
face allegations of rape. challenger Clarke Tucker,
Hawley spokeswoman Kelli the woman says, "We can't
Ford said in an email, "Of afford to let white Demo-
course we don't support crats take us back to bad
this." old days."
The ads in both states were Arkansas Republicans on
scheduled to run through Friday filed a complaint
Friday. with the state Ethics Com-
"We have a plan, we're ex- mission against the PAC,
ecuting the plan," Vernon saying it had not registered
Robinson, the PAC's co- to campaign in Arkansas
founder and treasurer, told and that the ads were run-
The Associated Press. Rob- ning illegally. Robinson on
inson has said the ad is part Friday said the complaint
of a $50,000 buy. was "utterly without merit"
Robinson said the refer- and that the state Ethics
ence to lynching was re- Commission didn't have