PARODY: Tillis Targeted in Charcoal Ash Attack Ad | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: The author of this post is CJ Staff, who are print columnists for the Carolina Journal, John Hood Publisher.

    RALEIGH     Critics of misleading political ads by interest groups say a new ad by the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters has gone just too far.

    The ad claims that the silence of N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis, the Republican nominee for the U. S. Senate, on what the NCLCV calls an "environmental disaster beyond description," shows that Tillis supports the endangering of drinking water and the pollution of ponds.

    The "disaster" in fact involved a Durham resident who dumps the ash from his charcoal grill in his back yard. During a recent downpour, some of the ash washed into a neighbor's koi pond.

    To read the entire spoof of over-the-top campaign advertising, follow this link.