This weekend’s N.C. State Fair attendees may be wondering why they’re seeing an airplane flying a banner asking if they’re on GOP candidate Michele Morrow’s “kill list.”
The banner is part of a $300,000 ad campaign from the super PAC Americans for Prosparody to try to keep Morrow from being elected state superintendent of public instruction. The ad campaign revolves around publicizing past social media posts where Morrow wrote about killing people such as former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden.
“Of all the nutty things she’s done over the years, including marching on Jan. 6th and calling for a military coup, calling for the execution of philanthropists and politicians is so scary,” Todd Stiefel, the founder of Americans for Prosparody, said in an interview Thursday. “It’s the thing that to me makes her the least qualified for the job.”
The centerpiece of the campaign is an ad showing a chalkboard with an off-screen “teacher” asking her class, “Hey kids, can you count the number of people on Michele Morrow’s kill list?” Stiefel says the artificially generated voices, of children count to 13 as the ad shows images of people such as Obama, Biden, Governor Roy Cooper, billionaire Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“I find it reprehensible that (Democratic nominee) Mo Green supporters are targeting children with this hateful rhetoric,” Sam Hassell, a spokesman for Morrow’s campaign, said in an email Thursday. “We saw this truck driving around Raleigh three days ago, specifically calling out to ‘Kids.’”
Green is the former superintendent of Guilford County Schools, the state’s third-largest school district, and the former executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a group that funds progressive causes.
Morrow is a registered nurse, conservative activist, homeschool parent and former Christian missionary. Morrow defeated incumbent Superintendent Catherine Truitt in the March GOP primary.
Americans for Prosparody switches from Robinson to Morrow
Americans for Prosparody had been targeting Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor. The group set up a parody campaign called “Mark Rottenson for N.C” and created a political ad using AI-generated audio and video parodying comments made by Robinson.
Polls show Democrat Josh Stein has expanded his lead over Robinson since the release of a damaging CNN report that alleged Robinson made a series of antisemitic, racist and sexually explicit posts a decade ago on a pornographic website. Robinson has denied making the comments.
“The governor’s race is basically over so we wanted to be productive the rest of this election,” Stiefel said. “We targeted Morrow because she’s similarly unhinged as Robinson. But she’s in a close race and might win.”
Recent polls have shown Green with a 2- to 3-point lead over Morrow.
Morrow asked to autograph her posts in viral Good Liars video
The group has bought digital ads and has mobile billboards driving through Raleigh and Charlotte. This weekend, the last days of the 2024 N.C. State Fair, Stiefel said an airplane with their “Michele’s list” banner will fly as close to the fairgrounds as possible.
Stiefel also had the Good Liars film a video of the comedy duo trying to get Morrow to autograph her “death to traitors” posts. This included autographing a 2020 post on Twitter, now called X, where Morrow talked about televising the pay-per-view execution of Obama.
The post on X of Good Liars trying to get Morrow’s autograph has gone viral. In less than 24 hours it had generated 22,000 reposts, 91,000 likes and 7 million views.
We asked North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Michele Morrow to autograph her tweets calling for Obama to be killed. pic.twitter.com/7z1R2KdXja
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) October 24, 2024
Morrow has said her old comments were taken out of context or made in jest.
Morrow’s campaign was successful in getting Americans for Prosparody’s “kill list” video removed from YouTube.
“The video on this mobile truck was removed from YouTube for violating community standards,” Hassell said. “Yet, Mo’s minions continue to market this hatred to our children.”
Stiefel said they’re appealing YouTube’s removal of the video.
“It says a lot about Michele Morrow that an accurate listing of the people she wants to be executed may be too extreme to even air on social media,” Stiefel said.
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