Joe Calvello, Director of Communications for Lt. Governor John Fetterman’s U.S. Senate campaign, tweeted on Tuesday (April 5) that “Conor Lamb’s Super PAC’s ad has been pulled from WPVI (ABC6) in the Philadelphia media market because it was spreading false information and lies.”
FactCheck.org “A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania,” wrote today –
A super PAC supporting Rep. Conor Lamb for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania made two misleading claims about the Democratic front-runner, John Fetterman, one of which resulted in a Philadelphia TV station pulling the ad.
- The ad claims Fetterman is “a self-described democratic socialist.” Fetterman has not described himself that way, and the NPR story cited in the ad now carries a correction.
- The ad also claims “Fetterman’s been called a silver-spoon socialist.” He has, by the chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, who also warned in 2018 that electing Lamb to the House would mean votes in favor of the Democrats’ message of “socialism.”
Penn Progress paid for the ad in question. According to FactCheck.org, Penn Progress is “a super PAC supporting Lamb that veteran Democratic strategist James Carville has promoted.”