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   From: pure.malice@salon.com   
      
   WASHINGTON   
   A Republican Super PAC has found a new way to target Democratic   
   candidates: Kathy Griffin.   
      
   A new ad uses the controversial comedian to criticize Democrat   
   Jon Ossoff, saying her recent controversial actions are part of   
   a pattern of behavior from “liberal extremists” who now support   
   the House candidate running in Georgia’s 6th Congressional   
   District.   
      
   Griffin drew widespread condemnation this week when she was   
   pictured holding a fake severed head made to look like President   
   Donald Trump. The head was covered in fake blood.   
      
   “Now a celebrity Jon Ossoff supporter is making jokes about   
   beheading the president of the United States,” a narrator   
   intones in the ad. “It’s not funny.”   
      
   Video of Griffin holding the head appears in the ad, alongside   
   images of liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and black-hooded   
   protestors smashing windows.   
      
   A spokeswoman for the group running the ad, Congressional   
   Leadership Fund, said it is not yet on air in the Atlanta   
   suburban district. But the group, which is spending $6.5 million   
   on the closely watched special election, could decide to use it   
   in the weeks before the June 20 election, said Ruth Guerra.   
      
   An official with the Ossoff campaign, in a statement, called the   
   ad a “disgrace.”   
      
   “Jon Ossoff believes what Kathy Griffin did was despicable and   
   for Karen Handel’s Super PAC to say otherwise is a disgrace,”   
   said Ossoff spokeswoman Sacha Haworth. “Karen Handel should   
   immediately demand this ad be pulled before any more children   
   have to see these disturbing images on TV.”   
      
   The use of Griffin is an unusual tack in race that has otherwise   
   been about Ossoff’s and Republican Karen Handel’s backgrounds,   
   national security and health care. But in a race that has been   
   saturated in spending by the candidates and outside groups,   
   trying a new approach (if the ad does run on TV) might be an   
   attempt to break through with voters who have grown weary of all   
   the TV ads on the race.   
      
   Ossoff faces Handel in a race that has drawn national attention   
   as an early test of Trump’s popularity in a district he narrowly   
   won during last year’s election. Ossoff is seen as a slight   
   favorite, although both sides say the contest could still go   
   either way.   
      
   Griffin has apologized for the picture, but the controversy has   
   nonetheless cost her endorsements and a job co-hosting CNN’s   
   coverage of New Year’s Eve.   
      
   http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-   
   government/congress/article153806769.html   
                  
      
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