Mother Teresa’s Lawyer Sends Cease and Desist Letter to GOP Candidate Using Her Image in Campaign Ads – By Lydia Smith (Newsweek) / April 27 2020
A Republican congressional election candidate has been told to cease using the likeness of Mother Teresa in his ad campaigns by a lawyer who served as legal counsel for the late missionary.
Chuck Dietzen, who is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Indiana’s 5th Congressional District, used footage of Mother Teresa in one of his election videos.
Dietzen, the former Chief of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, met Mother Teresa once during a trip to India in the late 1990s. He helped with surgeries on children with polio and cerebral palsy.
On April 2, he posted an advert to YouTube which included a picture he had taken with her on his camera. “When I worked in Mother Teresa’s orphanage, she told us, ‘never abandon your patients.’ I’ve lived by those words ever since,” he said.
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