Some Details on Governor Mike Pence’s Racist Ad from 1990

Screen shot of Mike Pence's racist ad from 1990 with a White actor imitating an Arab.

Huffington Post has a short clip from a local news cast but not the audio or the full clip from the ad.

Kaitlyn Goodman at Store Front Political has the most details so far, but I’m sure the ad will surface.

From IAgreeToSee.com:

When Indiana Governor Mike Pence was running for Congress in 1990, his campaign was criticized for a racially-insensitive political ad attacking his opponent, Representative Phil Sharp.

The ad featured a man with a heavily Middle Eastern accent wearing a black robe, white headdress and sunglasses thanking Sharp for the United States’ dependence on foreign oil.

“My people would like to thank you Americans for buying so much of our oil,” says the man in the ad to Sharp, while thanking him for taking oil and gas PAC money.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to find the full ad, but a newscast covered part of the ad: After Pence lost the 1990 election, he wrote an op-ed titled, “Confessions of a Negative Campaign.” He admits, “Negative campaigning, I now know, is wrong.”