By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Rob O’Dell | The Republic
The attacks on Fred DuVal’s time as a lobbyist began a few hours after the primary-election celebrations ended.
The Republican Governors Association’s TV ad, which began airing the morning of Aug. 27, twice referred to the Democratic nominee for governor as “lobbyist Fred DuVal.”
Other allies of Republican nominee Doug Ducey sought to hang the label on DuVal, including Ducey’s campaign staff, which tweeted about his “dark lobbyist past,” and outside groups that have so far spent $3.4million to attack DuVal, much of it on ads echoing the lobbying line of attack.
