U.S. Rep. Andy Barr has taken repeated shots this year from a conservative super PAC that came out against his U.S. Senate campaign even before he officially entered the race.
Now, after the latest ad from an affiliated PAC, he’s hitting back.
Barr’s campaign attorneys sent a cease and desist letter on Sept. 19 to the Win It Back PAC and Club for Growth PAC, alleging a short video released earlier in the week contains “false and malicious allegations” about the congressman’s record.
The ad in question was published on social media on Sept. 17 by PAC President David McIntosh. The 30-second clip accuses the six-term congressman from Lexington of voting to send federal funds to “hospitals that performed sex changes on children,” arguing the votes should disqualify him from office.
“With surgical precision, Barr voted to transition hard-earned tax dollars from your wallet into the bank accounts of gender-mutilation factories, turning boys into girls and girls into boys,” the ad says, while showing preteen children standing in front of a backdrop of hospital rooms.
The letter from Barr’s attorneys called that social media post “defamatory” and demands it be immediately removed from all platforms. It also demands the PACs cease and desist from “disseminating or otherwise publishing any unfounded and misleading statements,” noting the congressman cosponsored a 2023 bill that would prohibit federal funding from going toward gender transition procedures or health plans that cover such procedures, among other actions. That legislation was introduced but has not passed into law.
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