James Foley’s Parents to Republicans: Stop Exploiting Our Son’s Murder for Votes
The final straw came when a GOP-aligned political campaign ran an ad in New Hampshire, the Foleys’ home state. The ad targeted Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, and opened with footage from the ISIS-made video of Foley’s murder, just before he was killed. The ad, in implicit support of Republican challenger Scott Brown, accused Shaheen of weakness against “radical Islamists.”
James Foley’s father, John, appeared this week on a local New Hampshire new station to call the ad “deplorable” and ask for an apology. His mother, Diane, said, “It makes me very sad that people would use the brutality of our son’s death for their own political purposes.”
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