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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said Vice President and statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris utilized a 2014 property league arsenic a photograph accidental to boost her governmental fortunes successful a caller advertisement that is airing connected tv and societal media.
Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward, who was besides contiguous astatine the 2014 property conference, deferred to Sheriff Boudreaux connected the matter, and Kings County Sheriff David Robinson, who was determination arsenic well, agreed with Boudreaux.
“I did not privation to person my look associated with the cognition that I was supporting Kamala Harris for president," Boudreaux said.
The video utilized successful the advertisement was changeable erstwhile Harris was serving arsenic California Attorney General.
Boudreaux said helium lone recovered retired astir his quality successful the advertisement aft it aired, erstwhile others who saw it informed him.
“I was sitting successful a briefing conducting regular concern of the day, and I started receiving substance messages, voicemails, pictures of the pictures of the ad," helium said.
Boudreaux said helium doesn't enactment Harris for president and fears her latest advertisement is deceiving.
“There's a batch of powerfulness successful pictures and photographs, and that's however radical are influenced. I saw my representation determination with the accusation that I'm supporting Kamala Harris. I person a batch of constituencies that I support. We enactment nationalist safety. We enactment instrumentality and order. And Kamala Harris, rather frankly, has a way grounds of not doing so,,” Sheriff Boudreaux said.
Sheriff Boudreaux recalled the time of the clip utilized successful the governmental ad. “I retrieve I was a young sheriff astatine the time," Sheriff Boudreaux said. "She came in, didn't shingle anybody's hands. When she left, she came successful and did the spot and left.”
That clip besides features Kings County Sheriff David Robinson. Robinson’s bureau released a connection connected Facebook, stating, “Sheriff Robinson is alert of his representation being utilized successful the Harris campaign. Sheriff Robinson condemns this unethical usage of his representation without his support and volition beryllium requesting the representation beryllium removed. The advertisement is highly misleading.”
Sheriff Boudreaux said helium volition not beryllium seeking ineligible enactment against the Harris campaign.
