The GOP’s gubernatorial candidate in Kentucky—state AG Daniel Cameron—ran public service announcements at a conspicuous time. Google said they were political ads, not PSAs.
To be clear, the video was not the work of Cameron’s political campaign. Instead, it was part of aconducted by the commonwealth’s office of attorney general . And the costs weren’t underwritten by voluntary donors, but by a $175,000 taxpayer-backed federal grant that the OAG received from the Department of Justice
The internal records, along with publicly available government spending information and online advertising data, indicates that the incident wasn’t a one-off. Instead, The Daily Beast discovered a pattern in which promotional efforts paid for by Cameron’s state office appear to hew to the controversial rising GOP star’s political ambitions.
The email noted that “as of immediate, the ads have been paused and flagged,” and recommended shifting the pre-allocated funds to another component of the ad campaign. The Daily Beast sent a detailed comment request to spokespeople for the OAG and Cameron’s campaign, but did not receive a response. In 2021, the OAG also used a six-figure DOJ grant to underwrite a trafficking awareness campaign, called “Your Eyes Save Lives.” But Cameron, who wasn’t publicly running for office at the time, didn’t personally appear in any of“The staff of that office would be persons who should have appeared in the ad, rather than the AG himself,” she said.
For instance, nearly 80 percent of the OAG’s 2022 advertising spending came shortly after Cameron announced his candidacy on May 11, according to state spending data. Nearly every dollar went to Red 7 E, a popular vendor with the Kentucky government.shows that Cameron’s office paid to promote four ads at the time. All four were removed for violating the platform’s disclaimer requirements for issue, election, and political ads.
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