Alabama Dems Used Russia-Style 'False Flag' Facebook Ad Campaign To Hurt Roy Moore

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/politics/alabama-senate-facebook-roy-moore.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190107&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=61281955section%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

The Facebook page and an accompanying Twitter feed appeared to be the work of pro-Moore baptist ministers.

Along with a companion Twitter feed, the Facebook page appeared to be the work of Baptist teetotalers who supported the Republican, Roy S. Moore, in the 2017 Alabama Senate race. “Pray for Roy Moore,” one tweet exhorted.
In fact, the Dry Alabama campaign, not previously reported, was the stealth creation of progressive Democrats who were out to defeat Mr. Moore — the second such secret effort to be unmasked. In a political bank shot made in the last two weeks of the campaign, they thought associating Mr. Moore with calls for a statewide alcohol ban would hurt him with moderate, business-oriented Republicans and assist the Democrat, Doug Jones, who won the special election by a hair-thin margin.

But in reality, the effort was led by progressive strategist Matt Osborne, who told the Times that Democrats have a "moral imperative" to use the same types of "dirty tricks" that have become closely associated with the Trump campaign.

Matt Osborne, a veteran progressive activist who worked on the project, said he hoped that such deceptive tactics would someday be banned from American politics. But in the meantime, he said, he believes that Republicans are using such trickery and that Democrats cannot unilaterally give it up.
"If you don’t do it, you’re fighting with one hand tied behind your back," said Mr. Osborne, a writer and consultant who lives outside Florence, Ala. "You have a moral imperative to do this — to do whatever it takes."

 You mean the Democrats stole an election using fraud...You don't say!...