Wisconsin GOP Senate Candidate Sues TV Stations Over Dem Ad Blitz

Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde has launched a lawsuit against several Wisconsin television stations and a Democratic Party aligned PAC for running ads that he claims defamed him.

The ad states that Hovde, the CEO and chairman of the board for Sunwest Bank, and his family “rigged the system to rake in $30 million in government subsidies and loans, and now he’s sheltering his wealth in shady tax havens around the world.” It also claims at one point that Hovde is a “California banker.”

The ad was cut by WinSenate PAC. The outfit is one of the defendants named in the suit, along with Gray Media Group, Nexstar Media, Inc., The Evening Telegram Company, Sinclair Communications, LLC, Fox Television Stations, LLC, ION Media Networks, Inc. and Scripps Media, Inc., according to an Aug. 9 filing.

Read more at The Daily Beast.