Posted on 09/11/2012 7:18:04 AM PDT by doug from upland
No Pay, No Play: Akin TV Ads Canceled
Television ads for Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin have been canceled after Akin's campaign failed to pay the whole bill, Talking Points Memo reports.
By Maggie Rotermund Email the author 5:30 am
Rep. Todd Akin is facing a new round of bad publicity today after reports have emerged that he has failed to pay for his television advertising on time.
Talking Points Memo reports the Akin campaign’s TV ad buy with KOMU, a NBC affiliate in Columbia, was canceled.
According to KMOX, the campaign had paid the first half of the buy, but the station did not receive the other half. KOMU also said that it has confirmed that other stations have been put in the same position.
Sarah Mcadoo, an accounting assistant for KSHB-TV in Kansas City, confirmed to KOMU that Akin's ads had been pulled from their log. The Akin campaign told KOMU that the payment is forthcoming.
According to the KOMU story, Ryan Hite, campaign spokesman for Todd Akin, said:
"Our media buyers are constantly adjusting our strategy according to different media markets in Missouri. According to my understanding of this specific instance, air time was reserved, an initial payment was made, and when their ad schedule was set in stone, the other final portion of the payment is being sent tomorrow."
This follows on the heels of Akin's comments regarding legitimate rape. He has lost the financial backing of several national sources.
Conservative super PAC Crossroads GPS, founded by former Karl Rove, pulled its ads from the Missouri Senate race. Crossroads had been spending money on ads against McCaskill.
RNC, doing what it does.
RINO GOPes will cut off conservatives but did they ever cut off Snowe, Specter, Crist or Scozzafava?
If Akin loses the race, it’ll be the fault of Tokyo Rove and the GOP-e.
They’ll cost us the Senate and a chance to repeal Obamacare (which is all the deniability they want), after all Mitt loves state controlled health care.
Conservative super PAC Crossroads GPS, founded by former Karl Rove, pulled its ads from the Missouri Senate race. Crossroads had been spending money on ads against McCaskill.
As God is my witness I sincerely regret EVER thinking that Rove was good for Conservative Republicans.
There is NO GOOD/DECENT reason to stop ads against McCaskill. He doesn’t have to support Akin directly, he can still work to get Claire out of the senate.
Two posts already blaming the party when of course they have absolutely nothing to do with it and is entirely Akin’s fault.
Missouri Republican Todd Akin said he isn’t dropping out of his U.S. Senate race, anticipating money from party supporters may start flowing his way once a Sept. 25 deadline passes for him to petition the state’s courts to remove his name from the ballot.
Back on Capitol Hill for the first time since he said in an Aug. 19 television interview that “legitimate rape” rarely results in pregnancy, Akin told reporters yesterday that national Republican groups may reconsider and back his bid to unseat Democrat Claire McCaskill.
“I would expect, if that’s going to happen, you’ll see it after about the 25th,” Akin, a Missouri congressman, said after leaving the House floor, where he chatted with a number of fellow Republican lawmakers.
Or Akin over played his hand. Where is teaparty support?
No, it is Akin’s fault for making those remarks and his subsequent selfishness in refusing to step aside and keeping the story alive, essentially negating the momentum that we had been building nationwide heading into our convention completely. He did this to himself, and damaged the party nationwide.
Now I guess this latest flub (not nearly as serious, but it just compounds on top of everything else) of failing to pay for his TV ads based on your post is now also someone else’s fault.
The guy is delusional. But then, we knew that all along.
Thanks for losing what would have been a sure thing for the GOP, you self-centered twit. (Akin, not you, doug!)
...Courtesy of Claire McCaskill.
What does this have to do with the RNC? Did they hypnotize Akin and his campaign to not send the checks to pay for the ads?
What that point is is anybody's guess.
The MSM continues to savagely attack Todd Akin by denying him access to TV commercials.
No, it won't. Akin blew up his own campaign, then would NOT drop out even though he knew the only sources of funding would be McCaskill. Politics is dirty business, but Akin knew that... but he chose to step onto the playing field with no equipment.
What does that have to do with this one way or the other? The Akin campaign has not paid for their own ads. Sure, the NRSC pulled their ads, but those were their own ads. They were not in charge of running the adds for the Akin campaign or making payment for them.
This ahole wants to go it alone, fine. Let ‘s see the checkbooks come out.
He didn't pay for them. I'm no fan of MSM, but they don't have a role in his not being able to run ads. He does.
Your party needs to quit filling my mail box with letters begging for money and support. They do not support conservatives, so I do not support them.
Sorry ward heeler. Go eat some mice or something.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.