Members of the Republican Governors Association (RGA) on Monday launched a new digital ad in Georgia that highlights a photo of elementary-aged school children wearing COVID-19 masks behind a maskless Stacey Abrams.
The five-figure ad will run on multiple social media platforms starting this week, members of the RGA said in a statement.
“A picture is worth a thousand words. This one is worth our children’s future. Liberal politicians like Stacey Abrams want to force children to wear masks in school. It’s so ridiculous even they won’t live by those rules,” according to the commercial’s narrator.
🚨NEW DIGITAL AD 🚨
Queen of the Woke Mob @staceyabrams forgot to read the room as she was quite literally reading to the room.
Her maskless photo surrounded by masked children is the latest example of the left’s hypocrisy.
Georgia parents will not forget this. pic.twitter.com/QdsHDBZQE1
— The RGA (@GOPGovs) February 7, 2022
“It’s time to end the hypocrisy. Our children deserve someone who cares about their future. Stacey Abrams only cares about her own future.”
In a tweet, RGA members called Abrams the “Queen of the Woke Mob” and said she “forgot to read the room as she was quite literally reading to the room.”
Members of the RGA, according to their website, work to elect and support America’s Republican governors.
In now-deleted Twitter posts, Abrams was seen seated on the floor without a mask while several children wore one. The event took place at an African-American Read-In for Black History Month at Glennwood Elementary School in Decatur. School principal Holly Brookins originally tweeted the photo last Friday.
Abrams has championed more stringent masking policies in schools, according to CNN.
Abrams also tweeted the photos and thanked the principal for hosting her. Brookins’ and Abram’s tweets have since disappeared.
The Abrams campaign told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the candidate wore a mask to the school, but she later removed it so students watching remotely could hear her. She also said she removed the mask to pose for photos — on the condition that everyone around her wore masks.
On Sunday, the Abrams campaign responded to the backlash, in part by taking aim at the candidate’s political opponents.
“It is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History Month reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political attack, and it is pitiful and predictable that our opponents continue to look for opportunities to distract from their failed records,” the Abrams campaign said.
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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star and The Georgia Star News. Follow Chris on Facebook, Twitter, Parler, and GETTR. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Stacey Abrams Digital Ad” by The RGA.
