Posted on 09/02/2004 7:36:12 AM PDT by Indy Pendance
WASHINGTON - A draft opinion by the Federal Election Commission calls for allowing the Russ Darrow Group to continue running car commercials in the final days of the Wisconsin U.S. Senate campaign, concluding that the ads don't constitute "electioneering."
The opinion was prepared by the FEC's general counsel's office, but will not have the force of law unless and until it is approved by the FEC's commissioners. The commissioners are scheduled to take up the draft opinion next Thursday.
At issue is the McCain-Feingold law's ban on corporate-funded broadcast advertisements that mention political candidates 30 days before the primary and 60 days before the general election.
Because the ads mention the name of Republican Senate candidate Russ Darrow Jr., who is the company's chairman, the Russ Darrow Group had asked for an advisory opinion on whether it could still run the ads.
The draft opinion concludes that the ads don't refer to the Senate candidate, because, among other things, he doesn't speak in the ads, and the commercials feature his son (company president Russ Darrow III).
Is this the anti-abortion group pushing for calls to Feingold & Kohl, to tell them to stop blocking judicial nominations?
I'm not sure on that, but I wouldn't doubt it.
oops. read it wrong. I don't think taht group would push for Russ Darrow to cancel his car business ads because he's running for senate. They got their ads canceled because of CRF. I kinda think somewhere in Feingold's camp, they made noise.
I remember some dust up about that too, but forgot about it. :( Feingold's version of CFR includes interfering in a legitimate business activity.
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