Black Republicans continue outcry over ad targeting Corey Simon
A pair of Black Central Florida Republicans are the latest officials to denounce an ad targeting Republican state Senate candidate Corey Simon that some are arguing could qualify as racist.
Simon, a former football star who played for Florida State University and in the National Football League, is a subject of a campaign mailer recently sent by Democratic campaign officials hoping to retain Sen. Loranne Ausley in Northwest Florida’s Senate District 3.
Some say the mailer, which focuses on gun control and depicts Simon on a shooting target, calls back to a racist history of Black men as physical targets or characterizations of Black men as violent.
Simon’s campaign, local Republicans, the Se...
