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Michelle Obama to Philly mayoral candidate: Take me out of your ads [1]

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Date: 2023-02-06  

Obama’s comments condemning the ads came about a week after Ernest Owens reported in The Daily Beast that she’d communicated her displeasure to Brown, though that article did not mention the edit Orso flags. The candidate’s spokesperson defended the spots to Owens, saying, “The Jeff Brown ad featuring former First Lady Michelle Obama included content that was publicly available and in the public domain. It included comments former First Lady Obama made about Jeff Brown’s work on developing solutions to the national food desert crisis.” Brown’s team says the ad hasn’t aired in weeks, though it remains online as of Monday.

Owens also pointed out that this isn’t the first time that Brown’s messaging has resulted in the wrong type of attention. The candidate, who is white, last month posted a video on Instagram showing Black Philadelphians extolling him, with one saying, “In our communities, we have people called grandmoms. We call them ‘Big Ma,’ where they can give you a hug or give you a meal. And that’s the kind of energy that Mr. Brown gives off.” That same speaker later appears with Brown and says, “One thing about God is, He’s always going to have your back no matter how hard it gets, and so will Mr. Brown. And I thank you for being a like-image.”

The video, which Brown later took down, did not mention that the speaker used to work at ShopRite, though the campaign insists, “No individuals who participated or are featured in our campaign social media posts were compensated. They are all volunteers who offered their candid comments.” Owens, who is Black, had problems with the message that went well beyond its failure to disclose this, though. “As a city that’s majority Black and brown, Philadelphia deserves better than this type of pandering and insulting politics,” Owens wrote in Philadelphia Magazine, concluding, “For God’s (or Big Ma’s) sake: Kill the white savior routine, Jeff Brown.”

Brown isn’t the only candidate running for mayor who had a tough week, however. Former City Councilmember Helen Gym was one of the many Philadelphia Democrats who denounced the prominent Union League club for giving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis its top award, but she herself had to apologize after she attended a different event at the Union League days later. She tweeted Tuesday night, “Earlier this evening, I made a stop at the annual meeting of an event that I have attended in the past. It was a mistake. I apologize for attending.”

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