The in-your-face ad cannot be print media, or on the Internet. The ad ban is only against BROADCAST media -- radio or TV. Most people get their political information from TV, and the networks would run the ad FREE as a "controversial issue," so the original ad need only be on one local TV station.
I repeat, for those who missed it, that the TV station MUST run the ad and cannot censor it. (That's in the FEC law, as long as one of the people sponsoring the ad is a federal candidate.) I propose to put my neck on the line and do that -- though others elsewhere in the country could also do the same thing.
And the ad, of course, isn't an in-your-face challenge until 30 days before the appropriate primary, or 60 before the general.
John / Billybob
"though others elsewhere in the country could also do the same thing. "
We need to somehow make this into a nation-wide movement, to get other Senators/Congressmen to get on board with this.