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>>Files link Cahill to lottery’s ’10 ad blitz
Agency promoted during campaign
>>Former state treasurer Timothy P. Cahill was directly involved in the state lottery’s decision to launch a $1.65 million taxpayer-funded advertising blitz seen as benefiting his campaign for governor last year, according to e-mails and other documents obtained by the Globe.
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In August 2010, Cahill met for lunch with Hill Holliday chief executive Michael J. Sheehan, according to e-mails between lottery officials and the Boston firm. Following that lunch, Diane Anderson, then the lottery’s marketing director, and Hill Holliday executives scrambled to put together new television and radio ads.
While the original plans called for ads that focused on specific lottery games, the new ones promoted the lottery’s management, which is overseen by Cahill as state treasurer. Though they do not mention Cahill by name, the revamped ads portrayed the agency as a well-run operation that returns billions of dollars to local communities.
...State law prohibits government officials from using their position or public resources to further their political career. It calls for heavy fines and up to five years in prison for those who use substantial resources for their campaigns with “fraudulent intent.’...The ads began running in late September and were scheduled to end in late November, consuming more than 80 percent of the lottery’s entire annual advertising budget, just a few months into the start of the fiscal year.
But Cahill pulled the campaign in mid-October under pressure from Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is investigating possible criminal wrongdoing in the media campaign. As it has in the past, her office declined to comment on the probe.
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