PAC won’t stop airing anti-Freed ad despite Kane’s request

PHILADELPHIA DAILYL NEWS:   A DEMOCRATIC-funded federal political-action committee on Wednesday refused a request from Democratic state attorney general nominee Kathleen Kane to take down a misleading TV commercial criticizing Republican nominee David Freed.

“The Committee for Justice and Fairness will continue to run our independent ad,” according to an email from the PAC. “We have the right to speak about Mr. Freed’s position on this important issue and we intend to do so. We did not coordinate with any candidate or other organizations on this ad.”…

Freed’s campaign manager, Tim Kelly, denounced the ad as “false” but said that there was little the campaign could do to stop it. Kane called the ad “misleading” and sent a letter to television stations in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Lancaster asking them to stop airing it…  (more)

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