Where is Worchester, Massachusetts? Kennedy ad causes social media stir
Massachusetts politicos on Sunday lit up social media — and had some fun — over a typo in a campaign ad for Joe Kennedy III two days before the primary.
The ad from Local 103 IBEW in support of Kennedy included the wrong spelling of Worcester.
“For Worchester,” the ad read in Sunday’s Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
The campaign for U.S. Sen. Ed Markey jumped on the misspelling — and included typos of its own.
Campaign manager John Walsh tweeted, “On the bus today for the Leads and Delivers tour. We’re heading to Central Mass. Hey Lou (Antonellis of IBEW), very time I plug #Worchester into the GPS, it keeps coming up Enfield. Can any body help a guy out?”
The mention of Enfield was a reference to when Kennedy’s campaign sent out an email accusing Markey of failing to recognize the needs of residents in Enfield, Dana, Prescott and several other towns — even though those towns were flooded by the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir decades ago.
Antonellis tweeted about IBEW’s ad, “JK3 doesn’t need a GPS to get Worchester or Worcester (laughing crying emoji). @IBEW103 will knock a few extra doors today for @joekennedy.”
IBEW said that a representative of the Telegram sent an apology by email to the union, and pledged to correct it online.
“The Telegram is an important community institution that provides great community journalism,” Antonellis said in a statement. “It is ironic, to say the least, that the Markey campaign had multiple typos in their statements that tried to criticize the Telegram’s error.”
A spokesman for the Telegram said the newspaper was “not taking responsibility” for the typo, and that the ad was not through a local sales process. Media behemoth Gannett Company Inc. owns the Telegram.
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