AV24 Ad Responds to DNC's Botched Attempt to Smear Kennedy in Michigan

Michigan Law Upholds AV24 Signature Gathering Despite DNC Effort To Suppress Voters Through FEC Filing

New York, NY — American Values 24 (AV24), the super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s candidacy for president, responded to the latest DNC attempt to smear Kennedy in Michigan and disenfranchise voters. The response used the same tactic as the attack: a counter billboard that will run in nine locations across Michigan.

Last week, the DNC and President Biden’s campaign strategists claimed AV24’s Super Bowl “Kennedy Jingle” television advertisement was “bought and paid for by Trump’s largest donor, Tim Mellon.” They were wrong. The ad’s idea, funding, and execution primarily came from Nicole Shanahan. She’s a Democratic donor who contributed to Biden’s 2020 campaign and as The New York Times reported, considers herself a “progressive through and through.”

AV24 co-founder super PAC co-founder, Tony Lyons, said, “President Biden’s sinking approval rating and plummeting polling numbers nationally and in key battleground states like Michigan have triggered unprecedented panic in both the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee.”

Lyons added, “The DNC and the super PACs and Think Tanks that it’s connected to are also waging an all-out assault on voting rights. The unhinged DNC is playing political games that pose an existential threat to democracy at the same time that they claim to be trying to protect it.”

The precedent speaks volumes. As exemplified by Deleeuw v. State Board of Canvassers in Michigan, a case firmly upheld by the Supreme Court, “the act of collecting signatures and submitting them on behalf of a candidate is not just a civic duty but an exercise of First Amendment rights.”

Continued Lyons, “The DNC’s FEC complaint, the billboards in Michigan and New York, and the unprecedented and repeated denial of secret service protection to Kennedy show a pattern of corruption aimed at vilifying Bobby Kennedy, attacking the super PAC’s donors, and denying constitutionally protected voting rights.”

About AMERICAN VALUES 2024 (AV24)

American Values 2024 (AV24) is a super PAC committed to educating and mobilizing voters to elect candidates who will restore and protect the soul of democracy in the United States. Our long-term vision is to build a movement starting at the local level to create a national groundswell to address the critical issues our country faces. Today, AV24 supports Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s presidential campaign. AV24 is co-founded by Mark Gorton, Chairman of Tower Research Capita, and Tony Lyons President of Skyhorse Publishing.