Jacob Ogles
The same super PAC airing negative ads against Byron Donalds now has a website devoted to trashing William Figlesthaler.
Honesty America launched the website FreakyFig.com Tuesday. The oppo site characterizes the Naples Republican’s run for Congress in Florida’s19th Congressional District as nothing more than a mid-life crisis.
The ad tackles Figlesthaler’s personal life and professional history, while citing a freshly filed Federal Elections Commission complaint filed by Fort Myers attorney Chris Brown, who told WINK News he’s supporting Casey Askar in the crowded Republican primary in CD 19.
The complaint alleges a consultant working with Figlesthaler’s campaign, Matt Hurley, set up shell companies in his girlfriend’s name to shield his income and avoid addressing some $750,000 in debt owed to the Atrium and other claimants.
It’s especially notable considering a back-and-forth between Figlesthaler and local news station NBC-2 about Hurley’s relationship to the campaign. After Hurley was arrested for contempt of court, FIglesthaler’s campaign issued a statement to the station saying “I, nor my campaign or my medical practices have any affiliation, direct or otherwise with Matt Hurley.”
Sources with the campaign say they have stressed Hurley never worked for the campaign, not that he has never had any contact. Figlesthaler has labeled the NBC reports as Fake News.
The website also raises a professional connection to a doctor arrested on child porn possession charges. As reported by Florida Politics last week, Dr. Nicholas Franco was arrested while working at Figlesthaler’s urology practice. At one point, detectives investigated an anonymous accusation Figlesthaler was connected to the crime but ultimately no evidence of that materialized, and Figlesthaler testified against Franco in trial.
A video on the new anti-Figlesthaler website calls the physician’s personal aspirations into question.
“A man in crisis cannot lead a country in crisis,” the ad asserts.
It documents Fig’s marriage to four women, most recently to current wife Olga.
“He found her on the internet, plucked her from a small village in Russia,” the ad states. ”She’s younger than his daughters.” Amid pictures of Olga, the ad slips in an apparent screenshot from a Russian dating website. Figlesthaler married his current wife in 2018, when he was 54 and she was 26.
It also raises a donation Figlesthaler made to Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson’s campaign in 2012. The incumbent at the time faced a Republican challenge from Rep. Connie Mack IV, who represented the district where Figlesthaler is now running.
Honesty America was formed April 1, with David Satterfield of Alexandria, Virginia as the treasurer and Matt Pusateri listed as a registered agent. Pusateri previously worked for U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney, who announced last year he’s not seeking re-election. Other former Rooney staffers are now working for Askar‘s campaign.
2 comments
john b. dicke
July 16, 2020 at 11:57 am
Figlesthaler is just a scumbag, liar, and overall bad person.
Kris
July 20, 2020 at 7:02 am
After watching that spot, I will say that Honesty America sure knows how to roast a dude. Wow! The producer of that ad is obviously your go-to guy if you are looking to hire someone who is skilled at editing footage to make somebody looks super creepy. Mission accomplished on that front-I am now on my third night in a row of having extremely frightening nightmares about “The Fig”.
However that ad is a stark contrast to their previous spot detailing the dark FELONY criminal history of candidate Byron Donalds. The difference is a result of Honesty America actually having ample disqualifying hard evidence of why Byron Donalds should never have had a career in politics to begin with, while their Dr. Fig commercial is almost entirely a personal attack on the personality of “The Fig”, since he has none of the many serious crimes that Donalds has on his still-not fully explained rap sheet. Donalds is very creepy as well, but Honesty America simply didn’t have the time to focus on that AND inform voters about Donalds’ dark past, his lifetime of being a registered Democrat who even voted in Democratic primaries as recently as 2008, and Donalds extensive public jabs and snide remarks directed at President Trump, Donalds went from “I don’t care about Trump at all” and supporting Biden-ally Carly Fiorina, to “I am the number one Trump supporter in this race.”
The takeaway is Donalds will say anything or do anything or break any law that he feels like breaking in his quest for personal power and financial enrichment, while “The Fig” is mentally ill. This ad does make a convincing argument that there’s “something wrong” with Dr. Fig, even if that “something” is that he is weird as hell
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