A Muskogee Politico exclusive
Republican Insurance Commission candidate John Crawford is running television ads touting an endorsement by U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe.
The problem? The ad was originally run in the 1998 campaign, when Crawford was running for reelection. He ended up losing the election to Democrat Carrol Fisher, largely as a result of an FBI investigation into contracts Crawford awarded to his son's software company on behalf of an insurance company that was in receivership. Fisher ironically later went to jail for embezzlement while in office.
Here is the ad Crawford is re-running:
[Editorial note: the ad was removed from the internet a few days after this post went online]
This isn't the first time this cycle that a candidate has attempted to pass off, or imply, an endorsement that simply does not exist (click here for another recent incident), and it certainly won't be the last.
Senator Inhofe did endorse Crawford in the 1998 election, but has not done so this year. I am awaiting a response from Senator Inhofe, and will post it as soon as I receive it.
UPDATE: Click here for the statement from Sen. Jim Inhofe's office.
What are these candidates thinking claiming endorsements they don't have??
ReplyDeleteGreat job on this "scoop"!