CA-36: Democrats Now Raising Money and Capitalizing on Controversial Ad Denounced by Craig Huey

You remember the flap and Craig Huey’s denunciation of the controversial video. But, while having nothing to do with the viral web video, the Democrats are trying to capitalize on it.

Democrats are trying to capitalize on a controversial ad attacking Janice Hahn, the party’s nominee for a congressional seat in Los Angeles, that has been denounced as racist and sexist.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says the ad, depicting Hahn as a pole dancer and black men as gangsters using derogatory language, is “despicable.” The video by a political action committee called Turn Right USA suggests that Hahn, a Los Angeles City councilwoman, has not been tough on gangs.

The DCCC hopes to raise $150,000 by Monday to fight what it calls “vile right-wing attacks like these.”

“An attack on women and minorities this blatant and offensive deserves our strongest grass-roots response,” DCCC executive director Robby Mook says in a fundraising e-mail.

So, the Democrats are talking out of both sides of their mouths.

Hahn campaign spokesman Dave Jacobson said Huey still has not gone far enough.

“Craig Huey still has not called on the the ad to be taken down. Councilwoman Hahn has called on Tea Party extremist Craig Huey to come out publicly, not only to denounce the ad, but to call for it to be taken down immediately,” he said.

I don’t think the Democrats REALLY want the ad to disappear but then again I haven’t heard them defending Janice Hahn’s record with funding the anti-gang programs either.