[Prime Choice]

I will run the ad, and risk fines or jail time to make it work

Where do you propose to run the ad? I don't think any media outlet will accept it, based on the advice of their own lawyers.

[BillF]

I don't think any media outlet will accept it, based on the advice of their own lawyers

Good question for Cong. BB.

Doesn't CFR 60 day rule only apply to radio & TV, but not print ads? (No wonder all the liberal papers supported it.)

Does the 60 day rule apply to non-broadcast cable channels (i.e., those that do NOT have FCC license)?

[Congressman Billybob]

As said on the other thread, there will be two kinds of ads. The print ones will go in friendly (conservative) newspapers. However, the TV ad run 29 days before the primary WILL appear on the only TV station in this district.

Long before the current revision in the federal election laws, there was a provision that broadcasters MUST run any prepaid ad offered by a federal candidate (House, Senate, President). And they CANNOT censor such ads. Witness presidential candidate Barry Commoner's ad that used the word "Bullsh*t" about the Republicans and Democrats generally, and it WAS run on a national, radio network.

That network did NOT want to run that ad. But the law said they HAD to run it, and they did. The national media picked up on that ad big time and provided free ink. They never, however, quoted that word.

This has been thought through. Details like that are buttoned up in advance.

John / Billybob