Better Wyoming Action & Research, a left-leaning PAC, has retracted about 20 copies of a false mailer it sent about GOP Albany County Sheriff candidate Daron Wyatt. “Even one of them being delivered with factually inaccurate information is an issue," Wyatt said.
A left-leaning Wyoming political action committee (PAC) dispatched a false mailer against Daron Wyatt, the Republican candidate for Albany County Sheriff, but quickly retracted the mailer after about 20 of them were released, the group says.
Better Wyoming Action and Research conceded one factual error and another misleading claim on its mailers attacking Wyatt, who is running for sheriff against the incumbent Democratic nominee Aaron Appelhans.
Better Wyoming Action and Research endorsed Appelhans on Monday.
The group’s mailer claimed Wyatt “deleted evidence of torture under his jurisdiction,” and “faced FBI investigation for federal crimes involving inmates.”
Neither is true.
“After realizing these problems with the content of the postcard, BWAR attempted to stop their distribution,” the group wrote in a web post. “But a few had already been sent out by volunteers. We regret this error.”
Nate Martin, executive director of Better Wyoming Action and Research, voiced disappointment that the quickly-retracted 20 mailers should rise to the level of a Cowboy State Daily story.
“If Cowboy State Daily wants to write a big story about 20 postcards that got out into the world, that’s your prerogative. I...
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