Anti-West Boxing Video Bankrolled By Opponent's Daddy

They may have hit Congressman Allen West below the belt with a distasteful and dishonest attack ad showing West beating up on an elderly lady, punching a white woman and mugging a married black couple and their two children, but West is not backing down. He's punching back. The ad (if you still haven't seen it, you can still watch it further down) was bankrolled by a far-left organization calling itself the American Sunrise PAC... but wait until you hear who's bankrolling the PAC.

According to its website, the American Sunshine PAC "was founded to help usher in a new era of thoughtful, courageous progressive leadership in America" and will focus its "efforts on the election of a new generation of Congressional candidates who share a specific set of progressive values."

However, the website only lists one person on the "Our Candidates" section of its website and it's none other than West's opponent, Patrick Murphy. Moreover, Breitbart.com links to FEC records that show the PAC was founded by Murphy's father, Thomas Murphy Jr., the CEO of Coastal Construction, who contributed $250,000 to get the organization started. In spite of the fact that the PAC producing the attack ad is bankrolled in large part by the candidate's own father, Patrick Murphy's campaign still had the audacity to release the following statement: “The Murphy campaign had nothing to do with the content or creation of this ad. However, it is amazing to hear Allen West complain considering he recently called Social Security ‘slavery,’ said the President is trying to ‘enslave’ Americans...." West responded: “I would find it hard to believe that the son does not know that the dad is running this superPAC and what the dad is doing,” and he told Breitbart.com: "I spent my life in uniform fighting for our great nation and protecting all Americans. The ad being run against me by my opponent’s family depicting violence against women and senior citizens is reprehensible." West went on to call the foray into character assassination and mud-slinging a "classless ad [that] shows a lack of regard for the issues plaguing our nation" by "those who seek to destroy a person’s character to cover for their lack of intellectual ability and integrity."