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Skriven 2006-06-09 18:32:00 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Moveon.org
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This is funny.  Deborah is well liked in this area.  The cable company 
should take their money and laugh all the way to the bank.  She cannot 
be defeated by a democrat...

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Ohio Cable Network Pulls MoveOn.org Ad 

  
COLUMBUS

 Ohio (AP) -- A TV station and a cable network are refusing to run an ad 
sponsored by a liberal activist group that targets Republican U.S. Rep. 
Deborah Pryce because of questions about material the group provided to 
back up the ad's claims.

The group MoveOn.org is spending $300,000 on ads targeting Pryce and 
other lawmakers. The ads say they accepted thousands of dollars in 
donations from defense contractors and then "opposed penalties for 
contractors like Halliburton who overcharged the military in Iraq."

Tom Griesdorn, president and general manager of WBNS-TV, said the 
station didn't air the ad because its attorneys "did not feel 
comfortable with the documentation provided by Moveon.org," he said.

Time Warner Cable pulled the ad from the Columbus market after receiving 
a written complaint from Pryce's campaign. The network was reviewing the 
material Moveon.org provided to document the ad's content, Time Warner 
spokeswoman Mary Jo Green said.

  
The ads also target Reps. Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, Chris Chocola of 
Indiana and Thelma Drake of Virginia. The 30-second spots, which began 
running Wednesday, are part of the group's $1.3 million ad campaign in 
the midterm elections.

Pryce's campaign manager, John DeStefano, called the ad false and a 
deliberate attempt to sway voters toward Mary Jo Kilroy, Pryce's 
Democratic opponent in the November election.

It's the second time WBNS has refused to air an ad attacking Pryce. 
Moveon.org paid the station $89,400 to run ads in May claiming Pryce was 
"caught red-handed" taking donations from energy companies and then 
voting against legislation that would have punished them for gas-price 
gouging. The station pulled the ad after Pryce's campaign complained. 
Three other stations had already rejected the ad.



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