A political campaign commercial aimed at Republican representative Paul Gosar, from the state of Arizona, has gone viral in the US thanks to its twist ending, which contains some of the more pure savagery we’ve ever witnessed.
The commercial was produced by Dr David Brill, a Democrat who is hoping to unseat Paul Gosar in the state’s Fourth Congressional District, and it features a number of locals criticising him for his stances on health care, the environment and so on.
That’s all you need to know before the jump, so just give it a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZuayQFD51w
YUP. All of these people are Paul Gosar’s siblings. His own damn flesh and blood lining up to denounce him. My jaw is on the floor and may remain there for some time.
Per reports in the Phoenix New Times, Tim, Jennifer, Gaston, Joan, Grace and David Gosar have been increasingly at odds with their brother in recent years, saying that his positions on immigration, the environment and the like have “effectively torn their family apart.”
The ads – yes, ‘ads’ plural, there are apparently a few of them – were unveiled at a fundraising event in Phoenix on Thursday night, and have since taken the internet by storm. In another one, Grace Gosar says: “It would be difficult to see my brother as anything but a racist.”
David Gosar told local reporters that the siblings – who are six of ten – are not doing the campaign ads for attention, but rather in an attempt to help out their brother, who they say has become prone to “mangled” language and erratic behaviour in recent times.
“None of us are doing this for publicity. None of us even want to do it,” David said. “He just doesn’t appear to be well.”
Paul Gosar, a dentist who has been in congress since 2011, is one of Donald Trump‘s biggest cheerleaders in Washington.
He is an avid supporter of the border wall, and was condemned for a stunt in which he urged DC police to arrest DREAMers who had been invited to attend a State of the Union event.
His campaign has not yet commented on the commercials.
