Doug MacGinnitie, GOP Candidate for Ga., Secy of State, Under Fire for Fictitious Purple Heart Story on Mailer

Doug MacGinnitie, Ga., secretary of state candidate, under fire for sending mailer with hypothetical Purple Heart story and fictitious wounded soldier.

Doug MacGinnitie, Republican candidate for Georgia secretary of state, has sunk to a new low. Incumbent secretary of state Brian Kemp questioned a political mailer he sent, in which he sought to draw attention to Georgia's military members who must vote while overseas.

The mailer displayed a picture of the Purple Heart award and the story of Captain Basnett, who was denied his right to vote when he was rushed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center while his ballot was stuck in Afghanistan. The problem is that the story was a fictitious one and there was no Captain Basnett.

“My opponent is making a political attack over it, I think it's disheartening,” said MacGinnitie. “We just thought it would be more instructive and easier for people to follow if it was a generic example,” MacGinnitie told Geary. Source: WSB-TV

Will some candidates do just about anything to get elected? This was a bad move on MacGinnitie's part and he was deliberately trying to mislead voters. How can you play on the emotions of members of the military who have lost friends and loved ones in the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars with a fictitious story of a wounded serviceman?

To view the mailer, CLICK HERE.