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(Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Republican Party)

A partisan leaflet placing the image of Gov. Tom Corbett in a bull's eye has drawn a harsh rebuke from the Pennsylvania Republican Party.

Rob Gleason, chairman of the state GOP, said the poster pictured on a Greene County Democrats' table was offensive and promoted violence against the governor.

“We call on the chairman of the Greene County Democratic Committee to apologize to Gov. Corbett for condoning such disgusting imagery on their table,” Gleason said in a news release. “Reasonable people can disagree, but creating something like this is just unacceptable.”

Greene County Democratic Party Chairman Greg Leathers said he only became aware of the poster Tuesday morning and that his organization was not behind it.

"We didn't put anything out," Leathers said. "I have no idea who would have done it, but that's not the way we do things. We condemn that."

The poster apes a similar piece of political material posted on former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's Facebook page in 2010 that placed the districts of 20 incumbent Democratic congress members in gun crosshairs.

Among those figuratively targeted were former Pennsylvania U.S. Representatives Kathy Dahlkemper and Christopher Carney, who lost to Republican challengers Mike Kelly and Tom Marino respectively.

Also targeted in the Palin piece was then-Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a shot to the head by an assailant a year later.

Gleason did not cite the Palin or Giffords incidents, but appealed directly to his counterpart – state Democratic Party Chairman Jim Burn – to denounce the partisan propaganda.

“I don’t expect Jim Burn to stop promoting his party’s job-crushing agenda, but I can ask him to call upon Democratic organizations to denounce this type of action.”

State Democratic Party officials said they had nothing to do with the flyer, and distanced the state party from the material.

“This is completely unacceptable and things like this have no place whatsoever in our political discourse,” said party spokesman Marc Eisenstein. “Those responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves.”

* This article has been updated to include comments from Greene County Democratic Party Chairman Greg Leathers.