The marketing campaign for Mehmet Oz, a Pennsylvania Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, reportedly didn’t inform media retailers, together with The Related Press, {that a} Black girl at a “neighborhood dialogue” in September was truly the marketing campaign’s Philadelphia County coordinator, The Intercept reported.
Oz spoke with Sheila Armstrong, who had shared a photograph figuring out her as a marketing campaign aide in June, and comforted her as she described the capturing deaths of her brother and nephew, a number of Philadelphia-area information retailers reported.
The Related Press highlighted the occasion in a narrative this week and described “chairs organized a bit like [Dr. Oz’s] former daytime TV present set” and the candidate asking Armstrong how she copes with the tragic deaths.
Brendan McPhillips, the marketing campaign supervisor for Oz’s Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, tweeted this week that the AP story didn’t observe that Armstrong was “a paid staffer” and that information with the Federal Election Fee again up his assertion that the Oz marketing campaign paid her , The Intercept mentioned.
Armstrong, who admitted she organized and wrangled RSVPs forward of the Oz marketing campaign occasion, was on the marketing campaign’s payroll, incomes greater than $2,000 on the finish of June, based on FEC knowledge.
Not one of the Philadelphia media retailers famous Armstrong’s ties to the marketing campaign, in accordance The Intercept, and the AP later up to date its story to say her ties.
“As quickly as AP realized of Armstrong’s marketing campaign affiliation and confirmed it, we up to date our story,” a spokesperson for the information wire service informed The Intercept.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has additionally up to date its story to handle Armstrong’s involvement within the Oz marketing campaign, based on The Intercept.
The Oz marketing campaign additionally allegedly didn’t prolong an invite to Fetterman to attend the “neighborhood dialogue,” which Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb (D), who attended in protest, described as a “pretend city corridor,” regardless of Armstrong’s on-video declare that she had invited Fetterman.
HuffPost has reached out to representatives of the Oz marketing campaign and Armstrong for additional remark.
