{"id":46427,"date":"2024-06-10T16:51:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=46427"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:51:15","slug":"anti-trump-pac-puts-up-convicted-felon-billboard-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/06\/10\/anti-trump-pac-puts-up-convicted-felon-billboard-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Trump PAC puts up \u2018convicted felon\u2019 billboard in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An anti-Trump PAC has reportedly placed a \u201cConvicted Felon\u201d billboard along I-75 in southwest Florida following the recent conviction in May of former President Donald Trump for falsifying business records.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
Anti-Trump billboard. (Photo\/Claude Taylor, X)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Mad Dog PAC, founded in 2017 by Claude Taylor, lists<\/a> its mission as \u201cfight fascism, stop Trump.\u201d Similar billboards by the PAC have already gone up in Wisconsin, Nevada and Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe 12th Convicted Felon is up in Wisconsin. Our 13th is up in Las Vegas ahead of today\u2019s Trump rally. Number 14 goes up on 94 in Michigan tomorrow. 15 goes up also tomorrow on I-75 in southwest Florida,\u201d Taylor said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor previously worked as a low lever staffer for former President Bill Clinton. The PAC also highlights other billboards<\/a> attacking the former president, including \u201cTrump Killed Border Security\u201d, \u201cIt\u2019s A Cult\u201d, and \u201cLOSER\u201d depicting his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PAC noted its funding comes from everyday citizens who are \u201cmotivated by a desire to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican Party of Florida Chairman Evan Power ridiculed the PAC\u2019s attempt to dissuade voters in the Sunshine State. According to polling, Trump has maintained<\/a> a consistent lead over President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnother billboard? Are they campaigning in the 1980s? Joe Biden cannot win on his record of leaving the border open, soaring inflation, and failed foreign policy so he is going to do everything he can to try and distract voters,\u201d Power told Florida\u2019s Voice. \u201cIt won\u2019t work, and the American people will be heard loud and clear on November 5th.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strategy was also mocked on social media, with one user<\/a> equating the billboard as an endorsement for the GOP nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another posted<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m confused. Are these supposed to help hurt Trump or help him? Because I\u2019m pretty sure its helping him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An anti-Trump PAC has reportedly placed a \u201cConvicted Felon\u201d billboard along I-75 in southwest Florida following the recent conviction in May of former President Donald Trump for falsifying business records.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"15","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[8760],"class_list":["post-46427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-anti-trump-pac-puts-up-convicted-felon-billboard-in-florida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}