PAC behind 'dictator' billboard comparing Trump to Fidel Castro says more is coming
Mad Dog PAC, the organization behind the billboard comparing Donald Trump to Fidel Castro that has some South Florida residents in a tizzy, says this is “one of many meant to expose the truth about the former president.”
“Our mission is to beat Donald Trump by exposing the truth about him,” PAC Founder Claude Taylor told NBC6. “We put up hard-hitting billboards in a number of battleground states.”
The billboard was getting everything from laughs to heated responses from neighbors near Northwest 67th Avenue and the Palmetto Expressway. One woman told Telemundo 51 in Spanish that it was disrespectful to Cuba, Cubans, Trump and the U.S.
But the sign by the Palmetto is not the only controversial one. Taylor says the PAC has billboards going up every day in Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and those he calls “the big three:” Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
So who runs this Political Action Committee (PAC), and is its goal to get laughs or prompt serious deliberation?
Perhaps both, says Taylor, who became something of a social media celebrity during Trump’s first campaign for the presidency.
The billboards that get people talking
People from all over leave emails and messages on the PAC’s answering machine about the signs, Taylor says.
“I mean, some of our billboards are just really intended to be funny,” Taylor insisted. “We put up a billboard on I-95 at Mar-a-Lago… that simply said ‘cheats at golf.’ That one probably got as big a reaction as any.”
Still, others go for the jugular.
“We’ve got the one over on I-75 that says ‘convicted felon,’ which is really all anyone needs to know right now about Donald Trump,” Taylor said.
The PAC’s website features one that says “Roe roe roe your vote,”