MAGA Michigan 6th District candidate Tom Barrett’s campaign claims it was just a typo when they placed an ad in a Lansing-area Black weekly newspaper telling them to get out and vote on November 6th, the Detroit Free press reports on an old Onion joke becoming reality.
“The goal is to earn more support from Black voters and this was nothing but a proofing error,” campaign spokesperson Jason Roe said in a statement. “In addition to attending community meetings and meeting with local leaders, we’ve dedicated resources to urban radio and direct mail, in addition to print ads in the Michigan Bulletin in our efforts to reach every community.”
Dems in the state have called on the Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office to investigate. “At best, Tom Barrett and his Campaign have committed a shocking oversight which will undoubtedly lead to confusion by Black voters in Lansing,” Dem state Senators Sarah Anthony and Erika Geiss wrote in the complaint to the AG. “And, at worst, this ad could be part of an intentional strategy to ‘deter’ Black voters by deceiving them into showing up to vote on the day after the 2024 election.”
Knew this son of a bitch looked familiar… Here’s Barrett’s “voter outreach strategy” when he was running in MI-7’s 2022 primary (he lost to current Congresswoman and now Dem Senate nominee Elissa Slotkin). So to say he’s got a history of this kind of shit might be a bit of an understatement.