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A Harrisburg-area television station said it is \u201cpulling\u201d a controversial advertisement attacking Pennsylvania House candidate Janelle Stelson, who is locked in one of the country\u2019s tightest House races.<\/p>\n

The ad was sponsored by No Going Back, a group affiliated with the President Donald Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. super PAC. The ad raised an unsubstantiated public nudity allegation which Stelson \u2014 a longtime local broadcast journalist \u2014 denies. The PAC has spent $295,000 on the ad, which has aired on multiple local stations since Oct. 25, according data from ad-tracking firm AdImpact.<\/p>\n

Stelson is facing Republican Rep. Scott Perry in the south-central Pennsylvania district. The No Going Back ad, and a similar spot from Perry\u2019s campaign, have sparked significant<\/u><\/a> local attention<\/u><\/a> in the days before the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to pursue every possible legal avenue to combat these verifiably false attacks that fail to meet the already miserably low standard of ethics Scott Perry has set for himself,\u201d Stelson campaign manager Alma Baker said in a statement. \u201cPerry should take the rest of his lying ads off the air.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a letter sent to stations airing the ad this week, lawyers for Stelson\u2019s campaign and House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm called the ad \u201cfalse and defamatory\u201d and demanded that it be taken down.<\/p>\n

In a Wednesday morning email reviewed by Blue Light News, the general sales manager for ABC affiliate WHTM, Michael Nurse, informed lawyers that the station was \u201cpulling the ad in question out of rotation as soon as we can\u201d and noting the station did not receive a response from the advertising agency that placed the order.<\/p>\n

In another email reviewed by Blue Light News, a representative for WGAL \u2014 the Harrisburg NBC affiliate where Stelson worked for over 25 years \u2014 said that they are \u201cnot airing\u201d the ad.<\/p>\n

Reached by phone, Nurse declined to comment. Other WHTM officials as well as spokespeople for WGAL did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Perry campaign referred a reporter to No Going Back PAC to answer questions about the ad. When reached for comment, a spokesperson for MAGA, Inc. shared two Oct. 28 letters from the super PAC\u2019s attorney, Andrew Murphy, to local station managers and cable system operators saying \u201cad is true and must remain in rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it is typical for officials to litigate campaign ads, it is highly unusual that television stations actually pull them down. A spokesperson for the DCCC said this is the first time this cycle that a campaign ad has been pulled by a station.<\/p>\n

Aaron Pellish contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Harrisburg-area television station said it is \u201cpulling\u201d a controversial advertisement attacking Pennsylvania House candidate Janelle Stelson, who is locked in one of the country\u2019s tightest House races. The ad was sponsored by No Going Back, a group affiliated with the President Donald Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. super PAC. The ad raised an unsubstantiated public nudity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}