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Lamar Advertising, a major campaign benefactor, will not run billboards critical of state legislators. Executives at a major outdoor advertising company refusing to run billboard ads criticizing state legislative leaders for voting themselves 16- to 34-percent raises, have been a steady source of campaign donations for some of those same lawmakers. Officials at Lamar Advertising Co., which rejected the critical billboard ads proposed by the Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, have given nearly $30,000 during the past five years to Pennsylvania candidates and political action committees, according to campaign finance records. Two of Lamar’s top executives, based at the company headquarters...

Lamar Advertising refuses billboards it says are critical of public officials. A group of conservative political activists has raised nearly $7,500 for its planned advertising blitz against state legislative leaders, including Senate Democratic Leader Robert J. Mellow, who helped engineer 16-to-34-percent pay raises for themselves. Now, it just needs to find a way to spend it. The group, called Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, announced last week that it planned to target legislative leaders – including Mellow, who represents the boroughs of Avoca, Dupont and Duryea in Luzerne County – in a statewide anti-pay raise ad campaign on billboards and in...