Bush campaign to challenge ads (but its ok with proBush ads!)

[papau]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/10/fec.ads/index.html


Bush campaign to challenge ads
Media Fund calls allegations 'ridiculous'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush-Cheney re-election campaign plans to file a complaint Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, charging that a $5.1 million anti-Bush ad campaign in key battleground states violates the new campaign finance reform law, spokesman Terry Holt said. The complaint alleges that the group running the ads, the Media Fund, is using so-called "soft" money contributions from deep-pocketed donors to pay for the ads, which is illegal under the new law because the ads seek to influence a race for federal office (any ad that "promotes, supports, attacks or opposes" a candidate for federal office has to be funded with..."hard" money contributions).

The Bush campaign is demanding that the FEC take "rapid action" and impose "severe sanctions" against the group, which was created by former Clinton adviser Harold Ickes and aided by Jim Jordan, the former campaign manager of the presumptive Democratic nominee, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.

<snip>...A spokeswoman for the Media Fund, Sarah Leonard, called the charge that the ads are illegally funded "ridiculous" and said it was an effort "to silence the voices of progressives in the grass roots across the country." "The Bush campaign is simply trying to scare our donors," she said, noting that the president's campaign is not complaining about similar ads being run by conservative groups attacking Kerry. <snip>

The RNC asked the stations to stop running the ads.<snip>

[efhmc]

1. It won't work. Sorry bushies. Keep trying. You are just digging yourselves

in deeper and deeper.

[emulatorloo]

2. I wish there was a legal way to challenge Rush and Faux w the FEC

Because they are pretty much one long campaign commercial for Bush and Kerry Bash.