Post by Logan on Jun 15, 2016 2:14:34 GMT -6
Former lawmaker’s attempt to clear his name prompts fresh accusations
Former state Rep. Graham Hunt’s effort to rehabilitate his image prompted scathing new accusations from a top GOP political operative Monday, who said the former lawmaker tried to deceive him about a doctored war photo posted on social media.
Kevin Carns, the political director for state House Republicans, went public with a new accusation of deception by the Orting Republican, centering on a doctored photo posted in 2014 to Hunt’s Facebook page that falsely purported to depict Hunt after a mortar attack in Iraq in 2005.
Hunt has said a campaign volunteer posted the photo and that he never personally asserted to anyone that he was pictured in the image. He said he had the post removed as soon as it was pointed out to him.
In a lengthy post on Facebook Monday, Carns said that’s not true.
Carns said he and another GOP political staffer went to Hunt’s insurance office in 2014 to ask him about the photo after it appeared in campaign literature and online.
Read more here: www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article83710517.html
Former state Rep. Graham Hunt’s effort to rehabilitate his image prompted scathing new accusations from a top GOP political operative Monday, who said the former lawmaker tried to deceive him about a doctored war photo posted on social media.
Kevin Carns, the political director for state House Republicans, went public with a new accusation of deception by the Orting Republican, centering on a doctored photo posted in 2014 to Hunt’s Facebook page that falsely purported to depict Hunt after a mortar attack in Iraq in 2005.
Hunt has said a campaign volunteer posted the photo and that he never personally asserted to anyone that he was pictured in the image. He said he had the post removed as soon as it was pointed out to him.
In a lengthy post on Facebook Monday, Carns said that’s not true.
Carns said he and another GOP political staffer went to Hunt’s insurance office in 2014 to ask him about the photo after it appeared in campaign literature and online.
Read more here: www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article83710517.html