[EL] Misleading GOP ad (Kyrsten Sinema)

[John Tanner]

Is there a way, other than using the link in the NBC article, that one
reasonably could get to the contribute page without going through the first
page?  I tried, but then others are more clever than I.




On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Thomas J. Cares <Tom at tomcares.com> wrote:

> If you start at http://sinemaforcongress.com/ , it looks like
> perfectly-legitimate political speech to me. I don't think the donate page
> is trickery either. Making a sarcastic-negative ________forcongress.___
> site for congressional candidates that also seeks contributions to that
> candidate's opposing party doesn't seem inappropriate (but rather pretty
> much in the spirit of the first amendment).
>
> -Thomas Cares
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, Jerald Lentini <jerald.lentini at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If nothing else, the NRCC's disclaimer almost certainly fails to meet the
>> requirements of being clear and conspicuous. Language identifying the NRCC
>> is entirely outside the white text box and is overlaid on top of a
>> photograph. It has the least color contrast of any part of the page, and is
>> more difficult to read than any other text.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:08 PM, <info at arizonaspolitics.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> (One) irony is that the NRCC trumpeted this back in November, and claimed
>> that they were doing it because the "targeted" Democratic Representatives
>> were "FRAUDS".
>>
>> My article: bit.ly/AZp736.
>>
>> Did further research and found that all 3 Arizona Dems in swing districts
>> were targeted with this.  (www.AnnKirkpatrick.com,
>> www.SinemaForCongress.com, and www.RonBarber2014.com)  And, in at least
>> one of them, the word "Defeat" does NOT show up when the page comes up at
>> 100% zoom.
>>
>> The search engine optimization apparently worked well on Rep. Barber.
>>  The NRCC site comes up on page 1 of Google (when you search "Ron Barber
>> 2014"), and the official site is on page 5.
>>
>> My article also lists the 14 Democratic Reps that I was able to find have
>> been targeted in this way by the NRCC.
>> _____________________
>>
>> Mitch Martinson
>> www.ArizonasPolitics.com
>> 602-799-7025
>>
>>
>>  -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [EL] Misleading GOP ad (Kyrsten Sinema)
>> From: "Scarberry, Mark" <Mark.Scarberry at pepperdine.edu>
>> Date: Tue, February 04, 2014 10:06 am
>> To: "law-election at UCI.edu" <law-election at uci.edu>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> > 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?
>> >
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > Joseph M. Birkenstock, Esq.
>> > Caplin & Drysdale, Chtd.
>> > One Thomas Circle, NW
>> > Washington, DC 20005
>> > (202) 862-7836
>> > www.capdale.com/jbirkenstock<http://www.capdale.com/jbirkenstock>
>> >
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