{"id":2261373,"date":"2024-06-06T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-hovde-launches-campaign-ad-featuring-his-company-executives-without-disclosure\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:47:23","slug":"eric-hovde-launches-campaign-ad-featuring-his-company-executives-without-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-hovde-launches-campaign-ad-featuring-his-company-executives-without-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Hovde&#8217;s campaign ad showcases company executives without transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feric-hovde-launches-campaign-ad-featuring-his-company-executives-without-disclosure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2261373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Eric Hovde, a prominent Republican Senate candidate\u2064 in Wisconsin, featured his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-ceos-back-call-not-to-hire-pro-hamas-harvard-students\/\" title=\"CEOs Support Decision to Avoid Hiring Pro-Hamas Harvard Students\">business \u2062executives<\/a> in \u200can ad without revealing their identities.\u2062 The ad, named &#8220;Crazy Spending,&#8221; shows company executives criticizing Democratic \u2064policies at a bar,\u2063 posing as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-upset-over-roe-among-the-least-likely-to-vote-in-midterms\/\" title=\"Democrats Upset Over Roe Among the Least Likely to Vote in Midterms\">regular voters<\/a>. Critics raised concerns about \u2064the lack of\u2062 transparency in portraying the executives as everyday \u2064citizens rather than employees. Eric Hovde, \u200ca notable\u200d Republican Senate\u2064 candidate\u2063 in Wisconsin, included his business executives in an advertisement without disclosing their identities. Named &#8220;Crazy Spending,&#8221; the \u2062ad depicts\u200c these executives critiquing \u200cDemocratic policies at\u2064 a bar, appearing as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-must-understand-where-they-went-wrong-before-they-can-go-right\/\" title=\"Conservatives: Learn from Past Mistakes to Move Forward\">ordinary \u200cvoters<\/a>. Critics have highlighted the\u200c issue of transparency,\u200c questioning the portrayal \u200bof the executives as regular citizens rather than employees.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/eric-hovde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Eric Hovde<\/a>, the leading Republican candidate for Senate in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Wisconsin<\/a>, released an ad that features executives from his business without disclosure. <\/p>\n<p>The ad features three people sitting at a bar discussing numerous Democratic policies they take issue with. Hovde is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/2996181\/gop-aligned-pac-forced-pull-attack-ad-tammy-baldwin-vital-wisconsin-senate-fight-muddled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>running to unseat<\/a> Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tammy-baldwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Tammy Baldwin<\/a> (D-WI), a two-term senator, this November.<\/p>\n<p>The video, called \u201cCrazy Spending,\u201d shows two vice presidents and a director from Hovde Properties seated in a bar, according to Milwaukee\u2019s NBC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmj4.com\/news\/state-capitol\/i-mute-them-all-misleading-ads-in-wisconsin-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>TMJ 4 News<\/a>. The men are not identified at any point and are depicted as typical Wisconsin voters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I suppose if you\u2019re Eric Hovde, you can say, \u2018It\u2019s me and my co-workers getting a beer after work, and I\u2019m bringing them beer, and what\u2019s peculiar about that?\u2019 But I think it\u2019s a little bit deceptive to make it appear as though these are regular folks and not employees,\u201d said Mike Wagner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner said while it is not uncommon for political advertisements to use paid actors, this is usually disclosed in the fine print of the video. In this video, the three men were not identified or disclosed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t think of an example where three people who are kind of higher-ups in a candidate\u2019s company are featured as regular people shooting the breeze about the campaign,\u201d Wagner said.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter of 2024, Hovde <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2967857\/wisconsin-senate-eric-hovde-outraises-tammy-baldwin-majority-of-funds-from-himself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>outraised<\/a> Baldwin by more than $3 million. Hovde has faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2919388\/wisconsin-gop-senate-candidate-suggested-banning-alcohol-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>criticism<\/a> for having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2894821\/wisconsin-gop-candidate-struggles-fight-carpetbagger-accusations-company-shuts-down-local-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>strong business ties<\/a> to Southern California, among other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2959970\/eric-hovde-questions-fitness-of-nursing-home-patients-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>comments he has made<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only Wisconsinites who support Eric Hovde are the ones on his payroll. Maybe if Hovde stopped insulting Wisconsinites so much and actually spent time in Wisconsin instead of in his megamansion in Laguna Beach, California, he could actually find some Wisconsinites not on his payroll to be in his ad,\u201d Arik Wolk, rapid response director for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSen. Baldwin is so desperate to talk about anything other than her record of voting with Joe Biden 95.5% of the time that she wants to talk about who is in ads rather than the issues they are justifiably concerned about,\u201d Hovde campaign spokesman Zach Bannon said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner,<\/em> adding that those in the video were not paid actors and were \u201cWisconsin voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Hovde, a top GOP Senate candidate in Wisconsin, aired an ad with his business executives without disclosure. Three individuals critique Democratic policies at a bar. Hovde challenges Sen. Tammy Baldwin in the upcoming election. 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