AWFUL! Heidi Heitkamp reportedly outed women as sexual assault survivors without permission in campaign ad

Sam J. | 10:48 AM on October 16, 2018

By any means necessary, right Heidi Heitkamp?

Women Say Heitkamp Campaign Identified Them as Sexual Assault Survivors Without Their Permission https://t.co/CW8RkCxNmR

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) October 16, 2018

Wow.

From the SayAnything blog:

Recently Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s campaign ran an ad formulated as an open letter sent to Congressman Kevin Cramer by survivors of sexual assault.

The letter purports that some of Cramer’s recent comments about the controversy surrounding the appointment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were insensitive, but at least four of the women named in the ad feel like they got the raw end of the deal.

Kady Miller of Bismarck is one of the women named in the ad, but says in a Facebook post that “A lot of these people listed, including me, did not give anyone permission for our names to be posted.”

“I don’t even support Heidi Heitkamp and I am not a domestic abuse survivor,” she continues.

Double wow.

oh man https://t.co/ydB3VHZx4O

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 16, 2018

That’s putting it mildly.

It’s one thing to support women when they come out as survivors of sexual assault, but to out them for your own personal gain in a campaign ad? It doesn’t get much lower.

Mr. Kerpen, please post the ad in its entirety so we can see whether it was paid for by Heitkamp campaign. There’s no indication in the portion of the ad you posted that it is. There are rules about ads paid for by candidates, as you well know. Truth matters. @SenatorHeitkamp

— Maggy (@ShePersisted28) October 16, 2018