Subject: "Call Mike Dewine" ad: campaign finance question
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 7/18/2006, 9:17 AM
To: election-law

Hotline blog has put up this ad from the Ohio Democratic Party:
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/dem.mov

as part of this post on the DeWine-Brown U.S. Senate race:
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/07/dems_dewines_in.html

The ad ends with  an on-screen exhortation to "Call Mike DeWine" with a phone number.  It never says vote for Brown or against DeWine.  What sources of money can the Ohio Democratic Party, post-BCRA, use to fund this ad that it could not use if it included express advocacy against DeWine?  There must be some reason for the sham "Call Mike DeWine" language.
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