A Super PAC supporting Arizona Democrat Fred DuVal used stock photos of models to represent victims of his Republican opponent Doug Ducey. One of the models is not even from the United States.
The stock photos were used in a Super PAC ad that attempted to portray Ducey, who is the former CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, as a bad businessman. The group seems to have had trouble finding anybody that was truly hurt by Ducey's successful ice cream company, because it had to settle for using generic pictures found under the tag of "sad woman" or "mature man" in its ad.
It turns out that one of the stock photos used in the ad, of "Sad Woman," happens to come from a photographer in the Netherlands.
"Sad Woman" was also used by a law firm to represent a woman who received a transvaginal mesh implant and is suffering from "serious complications."
This is not the first time a Democratic campaign has made the mistake of using a European model in a political ad this cycle. Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes used a European male model posing as a coal worker in a newspaper ad.
