The Anderson campaign unveiled a hard-hitting new television and digital ad titled “Filed Leadership” today. The ad features a voiceover by Quentin Anthony Anderson from a recent campaign event, challenging the status quo and the failed leadership of long-time State Senator Cleo Fields.

The ad highlights the economic devastation and continued neglect in Senate District 14, where Cleo Fields has been in office since 1988. It showcases dilapidated infrastructure, struggling schools, and pervasive poverty, juxtaposed against Anderson’s call for urgent change and active leadership.

“And many of our leaders have institutionalized the understanding that our community expects disappointment, so they deliver disappointment. And after a while, they don’t even fight for us because they know no one’s checking them,” Anderson says in the ad. “If we want to see something different, we have to do something different.”

The campaign also released a fact sheet detailing the dire state of District 14 under Fields’ representation, illustrating how his tenure has failed to improve—or has even worsened—the lives of his constituents. The fact sheet includes shocking statistics about economic disparities,  and educational challenges that have persisted or deteriorated during Fields’ time in office.

The ad concludes with a powerful message: “Cleo Fields isn’t for us. Cleo Fields is for Cleo Fields.” It calls on voters in the newly-configured 6th District to make a decisive choice for change this November.

“Experience without results is simply a wasted opportunity, and it’s time for new leadership that will truly advocate for the needs of all constituents,” said Quentin Anthony Anderson. “Our district deserves a representative who will fight tirelessly to address our challenges—not one who complacently presides over decline.”

The new ad “Failed Leadership” will air across the 6th District on various digital platforms and television starting today.

Download the Cleo Fields Leadership Fact Sheet here.