An Alabama Senate candidate is speaking out after attack ads were delivered to mailboxes in District 33, claiming he led a group to Washington on January 6 and “attacked our Capitol.”
Pete Riehm, the Republican challenger of Sen. Vivian Figures (D-Mobile), said he learned about the false claims in the mailers over the weekend.
“I was very disappointed, but not surprised, to learn over the weekend that Vivian Figures campaign supporters sent an utterly false mass mail piece to voters of District 33,” Riehm said in a statement. “I have a long record of condemning any and all violence and have certainly never advocated it, so it was no mistake but an outright lie claiming I ‘attacked our Capitol’ or ‘led a group in the attacks.”
Riehm, a retired Navy veteran and business owner, said the last-minute attack ad was a deliberate attempt at character assassination by supporters of Figures. While he said he was in Washington on January 6 with the Common Sense Campaign, which he co-founded, he has also said multiple times he helped get the group out of the chaos after barricades were kicked in. He also cooperated with the FBI on what he saw that day.
Figures, who has held the Alabama Senate seat for more than 25 years, has not responded to media requests about the mailers....
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