Report: GOP candidate sues Rep. DeFazio over billboards

Art Robinson, a Republican looking to unseat Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) next week, filed a $1 million lawsuit against DeFazio on Monday for what he said are misleading billboards.

DeFazio's billboards say that Robinson thinks "public schools should be abolished," that Social Security should be "ended through attrition" and that Robinson supports an end to federal student aid programs.

According to The News-Review in Oregon, Robinson's attorney filed an 11-page defamation suit, which says DeFazio is using "half-sentences and partial ideas" that are meant to convey a "false portrayal" of Robinson. But DeFazio told the paper that all the billboards are true.

"All of them are documented," DeFazio said. "They are accurate. He said all those things."

Robinson's suit also argues that three of DeFazio's billboards fail to include a disclaimer saying who paid to put them up. DeFazio told The News-Review that this was an oversight and is in the process of being corrected.

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