[EL] newspaper running/buying candidate ad?

[Bill Maurer]

This Tweet gives a little more info about the legal requirements related to the advertisements.

https://twitter.com/Jim_Brunner/status/258619232110129152https://twitter.com/Jim_Brunner/status/258619232110129152<https://twitter.com/Jim_Brunner/status/258619232110129152https:/twitter.com/Jim_Brunner/status/258619232110129152>

I'm not sure about the admissibility of a Tweet, but I think he's right.

Bill

From: Sean Parnell [mailto:sean at impactpolicymanagement.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:22 AM
To: Bill Maurer; 'Bill Sherman'; law-election at uci.edu
Subject: RE: [EL] newspaper running/buying candidate ad?

Good point, forgot that Washington was one of the 26 states that allowed corporate IEs pre-Citizens United. Re-framing the question then, had this been for a U.S. Senate candidate, would it have been permitted pre-Citizens Untied? I think from the responses so far the answer is pretty clearly yes.

Sean Parnell
President
Impact Policy Management, LLC
6411 Caleb Court
Alexandria, VA  22315
571-289-1374 (c)
sean at impactpolicymanagement.com<mailto:sean at impactpolicymanagement.com>

From: Bill Maurer [mailto:wmaurer at ij.org]<mailto:[mailto:wmaurer at ij.org]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:12 PM
To: Sean Parnell; 'Bill Sherman'; law-election at uci.edu<mailto:law-election at uci.edu>
Subject: RE: [EL] newspaper running/buying candidate ad?

Technically, it wouldn't matter whether this was a pre-or-post Citizens United advertisement, as Washington law has long permitted both independent expenditures in support or opposition of candidates by corporations, as well as contributions directly to candidates by corporations.

Bill

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Parnell
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:53 AM
To: 'Bill Sherman'; law-election at uci.edu<mailto:law-election at uci.edu>
Subject: Re: [EL] newspaper running/buying candidate ad?

This raises an interesting question - pre-Citizens United would the Times have been able to run that very same ad in the very same spot, only replacing the 'paid for by' language with something along the lines of 'an editorial endorsement by the publisher of the Seattle Times'? I'd assume so - there's no particular reason I can think of that a newspaper couldn't repeat its endorsement elsewhere in the newspaper, and do so in a different format.

Sean Parnell
President
Impact Policy Management, LLC
6411 Caleb Court
Alexandria, VA  22315
571-289-1374 (c)
sean at impactpolicymanagement.com<mailto:sean at impactpolicymanagement.com>

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu]<mailto:[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu]> On Behalf Of Bill Sherman
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:38 PM
To: law-election at uci.edu<mailto:law-election at uci.edu>
Subject: [EL] newspaper running/buying candidate ad?

Readers of this list may be interested in something in today's Seattle Times.  On page B6, among bank and Wal-Mart ads and between the comics and the obits, the Times ran a full-page color ad supporting a candidate for governor (the same one the paper endorsed).  The ad was paid for by the Seattle Times Co.

That's the first time I can remember seeing a significant IE paid for by a regular mainstream media outlet, run in its own pages (or bandwidth, or air time).  I'm curious whether I've been missing this occurring elsewhere.  Have you seen this in your markets?  (please spare me the Fox News & MSNBC comments).

Bill Sherman


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