The video, called “Crazy Spending,” shows two vice presidents and a director from Hovde Properties seated in a bar, according to Milwaukee’s NBC affiliate“Now, I suppose if you’re Eric Hovde, you can say, ‘It’s me and my co-workers getting a beer after work, and I’m bringing them beer, and what’s peculiar about that?’ But I think it’s a little bit deceptive to make it appear as though these are regular folks and not employees,” said Mike Wagner, a professor at the University of...
Wagner said while it is not uncommon for political advertisements to use paid actors, this is usually disclosed in the fine print of the video. In this video, the three men were not identified or disclosed. “I can’t think of an example where three people who are kind of higher-ups in a candidate’s company are featured as regular people shooting the breeze about the campaign,” Wagner said.“The only Wisconsinites who support Eric Hovde are the ones on his payroll.