05-21-2008, 10:37 AM
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The Devil's Reject
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Pelosi Ad May Have Violated Campaign Laws
Let me be clear--I have no real love for newsmax, but somehow the emails keep arriving in my in-box.
I have no axe to grind with Madame Speaker over this issue, either. Rather, I'm posting it in an attempt to illustrate how completely foolish McCain-Feingold is on it's face. These climate change commercials do nothing to promote anyone's candidacy, yet are apparently illegal under this foolish, misguided law.
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may have inadvertently violated federal campaign finance laws by appearing with Newt Gingrich in a television commercial that ran in her district less than a month before a contested primary, according to campaign finance experts.
On April 17, the commercial began airing nationwide. It featured Pelosi sitting on a sofa with Gingrich, a former Republican House speaker, in front of an image of the U.S. capitol. They both introduced themselves and said they disagreed on many things but agreed on the need for curbing climate change. The ad was paid for by former Vice President Al Gore's non-profit group, the Alliance for Climate Protection.
Under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 - popularly known as "McCain-Feingold" and which passed with Pelosi's support -- the degree to which a candidate's campaign can work with an independent group for a commercial is limited. The rules are set on content and conduct for any political commercial. Content rules can apply to the use of a candidate's name, for instance, while conduct is determined by what role the candidate had, if any, in planning the production of the commercial.
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http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/P...mo_code=62C0-1
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