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NC Republican leader uses photo to mock Christine Blasey Ford. Its not her.
BY PAUL A. SPECHT AND RASHAAN AYESH
aspecht@newsobserver.com
rayesh@newsobserver.com
October 03, 2018 12:16 PM
Updated October 03, 2018 04:36 PM
RALEIGH -- A Facebook post about Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of assault in the early 1980s, has triggered a war of words between a local Republican leader and a Democratic candidate for Congress.
Lanny Lancaster,
Cabarrus County GOP chairman, shared a
photo allegedly of Ford that was originally posted by an account using the name Joseph Mannarino.
Lancaster shared the photo, which shows a young woman wearing braces and large glasses, adding the comments: This is the alleged sexual assault victim. Wow.
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The picture in the Facebook post that Lancaster shared is not of Ford. The photo has been circulating on the internet as a
meme since as early as 2012.
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ShoutyJobSeekingHat Retweeted:
Disgust overload.#Kavanaugh #GOP
North Carolina Republicans use fake photo to imply Dr. Ford was too ugly to rape