Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Jon Hulburd is using Christian radio to attack his opponent, Republican Ben Quayle, for his ties to a salacious website.
“I’ve read that congressional candidate Ben Quayle helped create one of the most offensive websites I’ve ever seen,” a woman says in the ad, currently running on three Christian radio stations and a Phoenix conservative talk radio station. “The site promotes drugs and prostitution, is filled with meanness and foul language, humiliates women and even mocks people with Down syndrome.”
The ad refers to TheDirty.com, a site that began in 2007 as Dirty Scottsdale. Its founder, Nik Richie, accused Quayle of having a role in the site’s creation — a claim Richie has since admitted overstated Quayle’s role in the site. Richie still claims Quayle wrote several posts under the name Brock Landers, a reference to a fictional porn star in the movie “Boogie Nights.”
Quayle, the son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, has denied having had any role in creating the site, though he has acknowledged posting to the site under a pseudonym.
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