Rep. Mia Love’s campaign ballyhooed in a press release Friday that an out-of-state liberal group was forced to pull a TV ad that Love says is defamatory — and attacked it as part of “lying” by “Ben McAdams and his liberal allies.”
“We’re on the air and will continue making sure that voters know the facts about how Mia Love is only serving herself in Congress,” said Craig Varoga, spokesman for Patriot Majority USA, a Washington, D.C.-based group that has said it aims to spend about $500,000 in “independent expenditures” to help elect Democrat McAdams.
Love’s press release said it had complained to local TV stations that an ad by the group falsely asserted that she illegally raised more than $1 million for a primary that was never held.