Quacking like a duck: Bob Crumley's latest commercial
Cross-posted from Decision 2008.
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I wrote back in February is the about a Bob Crumley commercial that seemed as if it might have some campaign implications.
Crumley is a Republican Greensboro-area lawyer running for Attorney General against Roy Cooper, the Democratic incumbent.
I noticed this weekend that Crumley is running a new ad. The tag line refers people to his law firm's web page. But you tell me: does the ad seem more like a commercial one might use in a campaign?
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It's definitely a "Feel Good" piece; but is it any different than the ads run at taxpayer expense about "lost revenue" that features a State Cabinet member running for re-election. In years before the election, it was some non-descript character on the beach.
Posted on July 5, 2008 11:08 PM
No doubt this is not the same thing as a person in public office using their public funding to air advertisements during a campaign season. (That's something that's all but outlawed now, by the way.)
But should a candidate, by virtue of his business, get to run what amounts to "getting-to-know-you" advertisements with unregulated money spent by his business? (So far the answer has been "yes" by election authorities, by the way.)
Posted on July 6, 2008 2:06 AM