#carpetbagger

FACT: Mehmet Oz Misspells the Pennsylvania City he 'lives in' (cough, cough) on his US Senate Candidacy Form.

Only Trump-loving semi-fascists would vote for a puppy killer like carpetbagger Mehmet Oz.

New Jersey resident Dr. Oz was handpicked to run for US Senate from Pennsylvania by notorious pet hater Donald Trump. 

In a scandal that will surely make Mitt Romney—who famously strapped his family dog atop the roof of his car for a road trip—look like a PETA activist, a review of 75 studies published by Mehmet Oz between 1989 and 2010 reveals the Republican Senate candidate’s research killed over 300 dogs  and inflicted significant suffering on them and the other animals used in experiments.

Oz, the New Jersey resident who’s currently running for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, was a “principal investigator” at the Columbia University Institute of Comparative Medicine labs for years and assumed “full scientific, administrative, and fiscal responsibility for the conduct” of his studies. Over the course of 75 studies published in academic journals reviewed by Jezebel, Oz’s team conducted experiments on at least 1,027 live animal subjects that included dogs, pigs, calves, rabbits, and small rodents. Thirty-four of these experiments resulted in the deaths of at least 329 dogs, while two of his experiments killed 31 pigs, and 38 experiments killed 661 rabbits and rodents.

Fox News has been desperately trying to prop up Dr. Oz’s comically bad campaign. Perhaps we’ll soon see Tucker Carlson defend puppy killing the way he glosses over Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine.

Owing to a number of bizarre gaffes on the campaign trail, including a comically out-of-touch campaign video of Oz calling vegetables “crudités” and the resurfacing of his history of creepy comments toward women, Oz has been trailing Fetterman for much of the race. But after a slew of obsessive, anti-Fetterman Fox News segments, and key police endorsements of Oz, the latest polling shows the race tightening. 

If you know dog lovers in Pennsylvania, NOW is the time to contact them and urge them not to vote for the puppy killer.

For those who think Jezebel may be too partisan, People Magazine did a fact check which is in overwhelming agreement with the Jezebel article above.

Fact Check: Was Dr. Oz Responsible for Cruelly Experimenting on Dogs?

They spoke at length with veterinarian Catherine Dell'Orto who worked at Columbia when Dr. Oz was there. 

Dell'Orto tells PEOPLE she witnessed the inhumane treatment of dogs in lab experiments investigating aspects of heart function over which Oz served in the role of "principal investigator" — including leaving dogs in pain and paralyzed for weeks, with no discernible research benefit, before they were euthanized or died. 

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"When someone makes the choice to use an animal in a research experiment they should be 100 percent committed to reducing any suffering that animal will experience," says Dell'Orto. "And I did not see that happening with Oz. I saw the opposite."

These are not exactly “best practices”.

She says she saw some of these dogs' chests opened so that pacemakers could be inserted into their hearts, "pacing them at a very high rate to induce heart failure."

Then, she says, "they were doing different treatments to see what worked."

Two reasons this is hilarious.

1. The attack ads are just things that Trisha has said that she supports. Which include Union support, Medicare for all, reducing oil production in the state, more school funding, and higher taxes on the ultra wealthy. Every time I see these ads it's just "quit threatening me with a good time."