Will he laugh this one off too?
ABC News
The American Legion has asked the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to "cease and desist" from using the organization's emblem in campaign fliers.
The American Legion has twice complained to Sanders officials since Jan. 22 about the use of the emblem in campaign materials. A Feb. 1 letter from the American Legion obtained by The Associated Press warns that "any further communication about it will be through our trademark attorney in the appropriate forum."
The continuing pattern of behavior from the Sanders campaign to falsify endorsements may be heading to court.
New Hampshire’s Valley News:
Thomas Wiley, of Canaan, N.H., objects to the use of a photograph of himself in a Bernie Sanders political flyer because members of the American Legion are required to be apolitical.
Bernie pulled this stuff in Iowa, with staff posing as Union workers, and using logos to imply endorsements. Newsweek:
Senator Bernie Sanders has built his insurgent presidential bid around being Mr. Clean, but several outside groups are now accusing his campaign of playing dirty.
Sanders’s campaign in Iowa has included League of Conservation Voters and AARP logos in recent mailers it’s sent to prospective caucusgoers, a subtle effort to tie himself to those groups, if not implying an endorsement. But neither group has backed him. The AARP, which represents retirees, does not endorse candidates, and the League of Conservation Voters, an environmental advocacy group, is supporting Sanders’s Democratic foe, Hillary Clinton.
And now news has broken of what is potentially an even more bald-faced deception, in Nevada, where Sanders supporters have reportedly been posing as members of Las Vegas’s powerful Culinary Workers Union Local 226 to try to rally labor support ahead of the state’s Democratic caucuses on February 20.
In New Hampshire Bernie ran a TV ad titled “ Endorsements” that he was forced to revise for claiming endorsements he never received.
Factcheck:
Sanders’ Deceptive Endorsement Ad: “The Bernie Sanders campaign misappropriates the credibility of two New Hampshire newspapers in a new TV ad that boasts of his endorsements for the Democratic presidential nomination. The ad, titled “Endorsed,” leaves the misleading impression that the Nashua Telegraph and the Valley News endorsed him. They did not. [...] The Sanders campaign is repeating a pattern — first misappropriating the credibility of the Des Moines Register in Iowa and now the Nashua Telegraph and the Valley News in New Hampshire.”
Note that TV ad with the faked endorsement ends with:
“I’m Bernie Sanders and I endorse this message.”
Valley News: Sanders used a photo of a pastor and his 9 year old son without permission in a campaign mailer.
“I do not wish to be seen offering my support to any particular candidate and have asked the Sanders campaign to cease and desist from using this image, in any form, immediately,” —The Rev. Stephen R. Silver
Will it take legal action for Bernie to finally address this deceptive behavior?
