Misleading ‘Defund the Police’ Attack on Dr. Oz
Dr. Mehmet Oz has been outspoken about opposing defunding the police. But an ad from a conservative super PAC misleadingly claims that the Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate was “a spokesman for a group who wanted to defund the police.”
The tangential link the ad relies on is that a dozen years ago, Oz appeared in an ad for a private foundation to encourage Californians to enroll in the new Affordable Care Act plans. And more recently, the foundation has funded research into alternative approaches to public safety that includes prevention.
That is the thin reed the ad from Pennsylvania Conservative Fund relies on in its attempt, Pennsylvania Conservative Fund is a committee that
