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The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association.
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"This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama's position on the Second Amendment," says the letter from Obama general counsel Bob Bauer. "For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement."
The ad, "Hunter," conflates Obama's anti-gun stances of the 1990s with his current, more pro-gun, stand, and was chided for inaccuracy in The Washington Post, an item to which Bauer's letter refers.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam, who provided the letter, said it shows clear evidence that the ads are "hurting him," and stood by their substance. He also provided a copy of the NRA's own letter to the stations and memo disputing the Post story, after the jump. He also said the ad is running only in Pennsylvania at the moment.
It appears that the Obama campaign legal team is using threatening tactics (see bold above) to try to get the stations to stop airing the NRA ads.
Below is the NRA's legal team's response directed to the stations in question.
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MEMORANDUM
CLIENT-MATTER NUMBER
999100-0130
TO: Station Managers
FROM: Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Counsel to National Rifle Association
DATE: September 25, 2008
RE: Documentation for Advertising by National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF")
This firm serves as counsel to the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) and the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF"), which is the federal political action committee of the NRA and the sponsor of certain advertising purchased and soon-to-be purchased on your station. It has come to my clients’ attention that the Obama for President campaign is engaging in an effort to prevent or stop the airing of certain ads by NRA-PVF, falsely alleging that the ads are ‘inaccurate’. The Obama presidential campaign apparently relies on an article appearing in the Washington Post on September 23, 2008 to support its contention hat the NRA-PVF ads should not be aired.
We have unions to do our thuggery, thank you very much. We use lawyers for work that requires a bit more finesse.
Not anymore...the lawyers have infiltrated state governments in Texas...can someone explain to me why a lawyer heads the Office of water development and overseas and manages a group of engineers?
Ya I can't figure it out either.....ironic at best. Not much finesse to the water development board.
I know Michigan is a big hunting state how about Ohio and PA? I would assume so too!
I don't know about Ohio but Pennsylvania is a HUGE hunting state. More deer are killed by cars in Pa then most states by hunters. Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency: Deer and Deer Management in Pennsylvania (http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/browse.asp?a=465&bc=0&c=70124 - broken link)
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