BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge Advocate reported on purposefully misleading statements made by the Caroline Fayard campaign Thursday.
Fayard Campaign Commercial Not Yet Airing --
Baton Rouge, Advocate Oct 6, 2016
Excerpt: "A campaign press release said Caroline Fayard launched her first TV ad for the U.S. Senate race on Tuesday, and on Twitter that day she said her first spot 'is out today.' But none of the five TV stations in southern Louisiana surveyed Thursday had a record that Fayard is indeed on the air.[...] Fayard spokesman Beau Tidwell said only that his candidate was on the air Thursday. He did not respond to a request for specifics."
The Times Picayune published the following clarification after being similarly misled by Fayard's press release in which she claimed her ad was airing on television:
"*CLARIFICATION: A previous version of this story may have left readers with the impression that Caroline Fayard's campaign has an ad running on television. That ad is presently running online[...]
Competitive buying information obtained by the Campbell campaign still shows, at the time of this advisory, that the Fayard campaign has placed only $3,079 worth of air time and
has not yet aired a single ad on television.
The Fayard campaign still
hasn't answered why she refuses to release her tax returns or why they purposefully misled members of the press when they claimed that their ad was running on television.
But,
this isn't the first false statement that Fayard has made to the press or the public. Her pattern of exaggeration and deception will undoubtedly come back to haunt her before election day. Stay tuned.
