Although, sadly, it's not because someone realized that a disgraced former Brady staffer making his own Knox attack ads and begging for money on the Internet to air them is really smarmy.
It's because of a lawyer's letter.
Bob Warner reports in today's Daily News:
An anti-Knox group calling itself the Economic Justice Coalition for Truth had purchased about $40,000 worth of airtime to run the ad last night on stations WPVI (Channel 6) and WCAU (Channel 10).
Each station backed away after receiving a threatening letter from Knox's lawyer, Paul R. Rosen. The letter alleged that the ad was "false, misleading and illegal," and suggested that the anti-Knox group had tried to circumvent the city's campaign-finance laws.
The charges were denied by Alex Talmadge, a lawyer involved with the anti-Knox group.
Actually, WVPI says in Bob's story that it pulled the ad not because of the lawyer's letter but because of an "internal review that began before the station received Rosen's letter."
(Wendy ETA: Did you notice the Smukler quote at the end of the Inquirer's story on the nature of this race's 527s? " 'When you confront a guy who essentially says, 'I am going to spend whatever it takes in order to get into office,' recognizing that the other candidates face severe spending limitations,' Smukler said, 'I look at it as a moral imperative to do the 527.' ")
Comments (2)
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Posted by robert | May 4, 2007 9:01 AM
Media outlets in this country, TV radio and print... are all gutless...
You stand for nothing except your corporate masters.
How can the swifties run their ad and this one is considered "too far".
Run the ad and do not bow to this millionaire's thug intimidation tactics.
Posted by Jill | May 4, 2007 11:28 AM