West Virginia's 1996 race for governor earns a mention in How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative, a new tell-all by Allen Raymond.
A Washington Post article on the book and its author recounts this from Raymond's days as the Republican National Committee's director for the Mid-Atlantic region:
Among the victims was Charlotte Pritt, a Democrat running for governor of West Virginia in 1996. In the state legislature, Pritt had supported a bill to teach sex education in middle schools. Raymond turned those "innocent facts," he writes, into a 30-second ad that screamed: "Charlotte Pritt proposed teaching first-graders about condoms!"The Charleston Gazette picked up the tidbit for a Tuesday editorial.
The lie worked: Pritt lost to Raymond's candidate.
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