Matt at
Michigan Liberal has already
posted on the disgusting ad in an African-American newpaper in Detroit attempting to link
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to Hitler. Matt notes that the DeVos campaign continues to deny any connection with the ad.
But her billionaire opponent, Dick DeVos (R-Amway), has a prior history of supporting a Republican candidate for governor that used Adolf Hitler to smear a Democrat.
In fact, just last year, in 2005, the DeVos voucher PAC, All Children Matter, contributed $157,458 to Jerry Kilgore, the Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia. Three contributions for "media expenses" in October and November of 2005. So DeVos money was flowing to Virginia in 2005 to support the election of Jerry Kilgore.
In mid-October of 2005, the Kilgore campaign ran an ad charging that his Democratic opponent opposed the death penalty for Adolf Hitler. According to to a
local report from October 13, 2005:
Gubernatorial candidate Timothy M. Kaine on Wednesday described as ''outrageous'' a television ad asserting that he would be reluctant to execute Adolf Hitler.
Republican Jerry W. Kilgore's campaign created and paid for the ad, which began airing Tuesday
. . .
"The notion of Hitler being invoked in Virginia politics is pretty wild," said Frederic Firestone, a Korean War veteran from Virginia Beach. "The Kilgore ads are playing on a kind of sentiment that is a vicious kind."
So just last fall DeVos money was funding vicious Republican attacks unscrupulously using Adolf Hitler to attack a Democrat. Dick DeVos (R-Amway) apparently had no problem supporting the Hitler-using candidate in Virginia.
Never condemned the ad.
Never asked for his money back.
If Dick DeVos (R-Amway) is willing to support this sort of a candidate with his hard-earned inherited Amway money, what sort of a candidate will Dick be?
Apparently a loser, like Jerry Kilgore.
Timothy M. Kaine, the Democratic candidate who DeVos's candidate claimed would not support the death penalty for Adolf Hitler, is now the Governor of a Blue Virginia.
- DeVos. DeRoche. DeLay. DeSame. -