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This is strangely blatant. I guess they're reminding TV stations of who controls their licenses to broadcast...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/06/moveon.ads/index.html
RNC tells TV stations not to run anti-Bush ads
GOP committee says MoveOn.org's spots are illegally financed
Saturday, March 6, 2004 Posted: 8:53 PM EST (0153 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Republican National Committee is warning television stations across the country not to run ads from the MoveOn.org Voter Fund that criticize President Bush, charging that the left-leaning political group is paying for them with money raised in violation of the new campaign-finance law.
"As a broadcaster licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, you have a responsibility to the viewing public, and to your licensing agency, to refrain from complicity in any illegal activity," said the RNC's chief counsel, Jill Holtzman Vogel, in a letter sent to about 250 stations Friday.
"Now that you have been apprised of the law, to prevent further violations of federal law, we urge you to remove these advertisements from your station's broadcast rotation."
But MoveOn.org's lawyer, Joseph Sandler, said in a statement that the ads were funded legally, calling the RNC's letter "a complete misrepresentation of the law."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/06/moveon.ads/index.html
RNC tells TV stations not to run anti-Bush ads
GOP committee says MoveOn.org's spots are illegally financed
Saturday, March 6, 2004 Posted: 8:53 PM EST (0153 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Republican National Committee is warning television stations across the country not to run ads from the MoveOn.org Voter Fund that criticize President Bush, charging that the left-leaning political group is paying for them with money raised in violation of the new campaign-finance law.
"As a broadcaster licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, you have a responsibility to the viewing public, and to your licensing agency, to refrain from complicity in any illegal activity," said the RNC's chief counsel, Jill Holtzman Vogel, in a letter sent to about 250 stations Friday.
"Now that you have been apprised of the law, to prevent further violations of federal law, we urge you to remove these advertisements from your station's broadcast rotation."
But MoveOn.org's lawyer, Joseph Sandler, said in a statement that the ads were funded legally, calling the RNC's letter "a complete misrepresentation of the law."
