[EL] Misleading GOP ad (Kyrsten Sinema)

[Joseph Birkenstock]

Totally agree, Mark.  Politics =/= beanbag, everybody gets that.  But this isn't a trick on krysten Sinema or any other political combatant, it's a trick on her donors and supporters - both in potentially diverting their $$ to the nrcc, and in making them think twice when landing on or looking for her real contribution page.  

It's reprehensible, and while the nrcc is free to run its campaigns however it likes, I'm particularly surprised that visa/Mastercard/etc. seem willing to go along with this.  Makes me wonder if they've been asked about it yet.

Could I use their payment processes on a website at purchase.coca-cola.com that used one word at the end of a line and a printed box disclaimer to sell Pepsi?

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Scarberry, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 12:06 PM
To: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] Misleading GOP ad (Kyrsten Sinema)

It absolutely is misleading. If the reader misses one word ("Defeat"), the reader would think contributions would be used to support the Democrat. You don't have to click through to an obviously anti-Sinema site to contribute, nor is there any other indication of the ad's true purpose. 

Suppose there had been something conspicuous that would alert the would-be contributor, and the ad included a substantive criticism of Sinema. Would it be ethical to use the headline to get Sinema supporters to read the rest of the ad? My sense is no. It would be different if there were three question marks ("???") after the headline.

Mark Scarberry
Pepperdine 

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> On Feb 4, 2014, at 7:03 AM, "Joseph Birkenstock" <jbirkenstock at capdale.com> wrote:
> 
> Holy charge-backs, Batman...  What's the non-"we're trying to trick donors" reason for putting "Kyrsten Sinema for Congress" at the top of that webpage?
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