The campaign ad targets Democratic Assembly candidate Vin Gopal for his previous work on the congressional campaign of former Assemblyman Joseph Vas
That old saying about birds of a feather flocking together isn’t always true in politics.
But a recent political advertisement put out by the Republican State Committee and targeting Vin Gopal, a Democratic candidate for Assembly District 11, seems to indicate otherwise. The ad attempts to link Gopal with disgraced former Assemblyman Joe Vas.
The Truth-O-Meter found that although Gopal was a Vas campaign manager for four months of his college career in 2006, the claims in the ad rate a Pants on Fire ruling.
Read the story at PolitiFactNJ.com and then join the conversation about it at NJ.com.
A campaign ad from the New Jersey Republican State Committee gets a Pants on Fire for tying Democratic Assembly candidate Vin Gopal to the criminal activities of former Assemblyman Joseph Vas, pictured in this 2009 photo.
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