Ad uses lynching photo to slam senator's 'hanging' remark
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ” A political ad uses a 1930 photo of a white crowd in Indiana posing around a tree as the lifeless bodies of two black men hang above them, lynched in nooses. The ad superimposes an unrelated photo of a current white senator from Mississippi as text appears: “This is where U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith would like to be.”The ad on Facebook is paid for by PowerPACPlus, a California-based political action committee that has spent nearly $1.8 million in other […]
