LOOK: This David Vitter Ad Is Mind-Blowingly Disgusting And Xenophobic

This is how low David Vitter and the GOP have to stoop to try to get him elected governor.

Republican Senator David Vitter, in a race against time, has decided to capitalize on the Paris terror attacks and the false report that one of the terrorists was a Syrian refugee, to try to save his flailing campaign to be the next Governor of Louisiana. On Saturday, Louisiana citizens will head to the polls to decide if they want Vitter or his Democratic opponent, State Rep. John Bel Edwards, to be their next governor.

Vitter apparently planted a false story about a Syrian refugee disappearing from Louisiana, and is using that to show how hands-on he is in the fight against terror. Or something.

And apparently thanks to this tweet from Vitter, Catholic Charities, which helps refugees, has been getting death threats. 

Catholic Charities’ Communications Coordinator Carol Spruell “said the organization received a call around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday where a person made gun threats,” WAFB reports.

The head of the Louisiana State Police calls the “missing” claim “a mischaracterization,” and “just simply not true.”

The Advocate, a local Louisiana newspaper, also reports that the refugee “never went missing.”

But Vitter stood on the Senate fllor yesterday and delivered this statement:

Based on local news reports, this is false.

And then, there’s this disgusting ad, posted to the Louisiana Republican Party’s website. 

 

The Best of New Orleans’ Clancy Dubos writes that local sheriff Newell Normand called him about the ad, which he had received as an email.

“Somebody’s going to get killed” because of this kind of thing, Normand said to me.

Dubos adds that the email, “like U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s entire gubernatorial campaign these days, falsely and deliberately tries to foster mass hysteria about Syrian refugees in Louisiana. It is, in my opinion, the most irresponsible, desperate, even despicable piece of campaign hysteria I have ever seen — and I’ve seen a lot.”

Dubos also writes that the refugee “had to fill out multiple forms before moving around in Baton Rouge, let alone before moving to Washington D.C. to be with his family.”

So, there is no “missing” refugee. David Vitter and the GOP are essentially spreading falsehoods to win votes.

Vitter of course is the “pro-family,” anti-gay U.S. Senator who, with his wife stand by his side, was forced to announce in 2007 that he was a customer of the “DC Madam,” and had “sinned.”

His standing in the polls is embarrassing. Vitter is about 10 points behind Edwards. Republicans fear if Vitter loses the governor’s race he won’t be able to be re-elected to his Senate seat, giving Democrats a clearer shot to taking back the Senate next year.

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