Georgia Democrat Ashwin Ramaswami – no relation to Ohio Republican gov nominee Vivek “Da Vek” Ramaswamy, whose surname is anglicized slightly differently – has filed a federal lawsuit against incumbent Republican state Senator Shawn Still and his campaign’s comms firm over “outrageous, false, and malicious” statements made during Ramaswami’s unsuccessful campaign against Still last year, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on a potentially pretty interesting case.

Typical story about right wing propaganda short, Ramaswami’s campaign had submitted a public records request to seek the names of students at a local high school in order to identify kids who might be eligible to vote. Kind of stupid and a waste of time since the percentage of seniors who would be 18 at the time of a November election would be very low double digits in any given high school (though the timing is unclear and maybe it happened in the spring before the primary).

Still, a “Stop the Steal” asshole among the 15 or so Trump minions still under indictment in the long-stalled Fulton County case, responded by sending out a mailer saying “If you or your teenager is approached inappropriately by creepy Ashwin Ramaswami, call the Fulton County Sheriff,” and using the word “solicitation” to associate it with prostitution and thus pedophilia. The complaint takes particular issue with that phrasing, saying it painted Ramaswami as “seeking to have sex with children, which Ashwin was not attempting,” and that images from certain mailers were “intentionally concocted” to make Ramaswami look like a pedophile. Ramaswami seeks punitive and other damages against Still and consultant Landmark Communications, and that they cover his legal fees.