North Carolina Senate Candidate Hagan Sues GOP Incumbent Dole

Sen. Elizabeth Dole ran a television ad that questions Kay Hagan's ties to an atheist political group. Hagan accuses Dole of defamation and libel for running the ad. Hagain, a Presbyterian church elder who teaches Sunday school, responded with an ad Thursday in which she forcefully declares her faith in God.

By: The Associated Press | WSPA-TV
Published: October 30, 2008

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan is suing Elizabeth Dole, accusing the Republican incumbent of defamation and libel for running a television ad that questions Hagan's ties to an atheist political group.

Hagan filed a lawsuit Thursday in Wake County Superior Court after Dole declined to remove the ad from the air.

Released this week, Dole's ad questions why Hagan went to a fundraiser at the home of a man who serves as an adviser to the Godless Americans Political Action Committee.

The ad ends by showing a picture of Hagan while another woman declares in the background, "There is no God!"

Hagan is a Presbyterian church elder who teaches Sunday school. She responded with an ad Thursday in which she forcefully declares her faith in God.

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