angelatc
02-23-2014, 06:29 PM
First, the ad in question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Kpjyr1x7mC0
This ad is all over the airways here, with the tagline that Americans For Prosperity paid for it. It features a woman claiming that her insurance was cancelled because of Obamacare, and that the co-pays on her new policy make it too expensive for her to get her cancer medication. It ends by pointing out that Peters voted for it, and she feels like she was lied to. How did he react? By calling her a liar, and threatening to sue the TV stations that are airing the ad:
http://freebeacon.com/cancer-obamacare-victim-at-center-of-political-storm/
Peters, who is running for a seat in the Senate, instructed his legal council earlier this week to demand that stations stop running the AFP ad until additional evidence of the cancer victim’s claims could be produced.
“For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should immediately require AFP to provide the factual documentation for its claims if you are going to continue airing this advertising,” read the letter from Peters’ lawyers.
The letter went on to question Boonstra’s motives and the facts presented in AFP’s ad.
Boonstra said she is “surprised” by what she described as the Peters campaign’s strong-arm tactics.
“I’m very surprised,” Boonstra said just hour after she attempted to confront Peter face-to-face at his Bloomfield Hills residence. “I have every right to tell my story and express my point of view and opinion on how Obamacare has affected me.”
Here's the letter they're sending out: http://americansforprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Peters_letter.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Kpjyr1x7mC0
This ad is all over the airways here, with the tagline that Americans For Prosperity paid for it. It features a woman claiming that her insurance was cancelled because of Obamacare, and that the co-pays on her new policy make it too expensive for her to get her cancer medication. It ends by pointing out that Peters voted for it, and she feels like she was lied to. How did he react? By calling her a liar, and threatening to sue the TV stations that are airing the ad:
http://freebeacon.com/cancer-obamacare-victim-at-center-of-political-storm/
Peters, who is running for a seat in the Senate, instructed his legal council earlier this week to demand that stations stop running the AFP ad until additional evidence of the cancer victim’s claims could be produced.
“For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should immediately require AFP to provide the factual documentation for its claims if you are going to continue airing this advertising,” read the letter from Peters’ lawyers.
The letter went on to question Boonstra’s motives and the facts presented in AFP’s ad.
Boonstra said she is “surprised” by what she described as the Peters campaign’s strong-arm tactics.
“I’m very surprised,” Boonstra said just hour after she attempted to confront Peter face-to-face at his Bloomfield Hills residence. “I have every right to tell my story and express my point of view and opinion on how Obamacare has affected me.”
Here's the letter they're sending out: http://americansforprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Peters_letter.pdf