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U-T San Diego Political Ads Don't Add Up
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/apr/05/UT-political-ads-campaign-laws/
U-T San Diego Political Ads Don’t Add Up
This story was updated with comment from the FPPC.
As of Friday, April 5, 2013
By Ryann Grochowski, Amita Sharma
SAN DIEGO — Campaign strategist Tom Shepard grew more suspicious by the day last fall as he flipped through the U-T San Diego and repeatedly saw full-page ads lambasting his client Bob Filner, a Democrat running for mayor.
“It made me wonder whether they were crazy,” Shepard said. “When I started seeing ads from the other side running as often as they did, it made me wonder — if they were paying $8,000 an ad, they were spending an enormous amount on newspaper advertising.”
The $8,000 per full page is what Shepard said the U-T quoted Filner’s campaign for advertising. Campaign finance disclosures, however, show the other side paid far less.
This discrepancy — and others discovered by the inewsource and KPBS Investigations Desk — could violate campaign laws.
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U-T San Diego Political Ads Don’t Add Up
This story was updated with comment from the FPPC.
As of Friday, April 5, 2013
By Ryann Grochowski, Amita Sharma
SAN DIEGO — Campaign strategist Tom Shepard grew more suspicious by the day last fall as he flipped through the U-T San Diego and repeatedly saw full-page ads lambasting his client Bob Filner, a Democrat running for mayor.
“It made me wonder whether they were crazy,” Shepard said. “When I started seeing ads from the other side running as often as they did, it made me wonder — if they were paying $8,000 an ad, they were spending an enormous amount on newspaper advertising.”
The $8,000 per full page is what Shepard said the U-T quoted Filner’s campaign for advertising. Campaign finance disclosures, however, show the other side paid far less.
This discrepancy — and others discovered by the inewsource and KPBS Investigations Desk — could violate campaign laws.
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