Is The Case Against MoveOn Ads Going To Work?

[KittyWampus]

My understanding is that the MoveOn ads don't mention Kerry. If the time slots that ANY ad runs in is public knowledge and if the pollsl and democgraphics pointing to battleground spots is also public... how can the case succeed. Is this something to really get worried about?

It's incredible to thin that Bush has already spent 41 million.
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GOP Complaint Cites Pro-Democratic Groups
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40573-2004Mar31.html

The Bush campaign and the Republican Party filed charges yesterday with the Federal Election Commission accusing the Kerry campaign and seven "independent" organizations of conducting a criminal conspiracy to inject large amounts of "soft money" into the 2004 election.

The Bush campaign, which this month has spent an unprecedented $41.8 million on television ads, many of them attacking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), has become increasingly frustrated by the ability of Kerry and such "independent" groups as MoveOn.org and the Media Fund to counter with nearly $20 million in ads.

In a separate rule-making process expected to take months, the FEC is addressing many of the issues raised by the Bush-RNC complaint. The complaint filed yesterday is designed to force a much quicker decision on the legality of the activities of the Kerry campaign and allied groups. A ruling against the Democrats would cut off a major source of campaign support for Kerry.

[papau]

1. RNC files credible FEC complaint, asks dismissal as not credible, so

it can then go to a right wing judge and have it ruled credible.

And the FEC is going to go along with this?

From the ABCnote:
The Republican National Committee will file an emergency complaint with the Federal Election Commission but urge the commission to quickly dismiss the complaint. The tactic would allow the RNC to seek more immediate relief from a federal judge, who could shut down the Democratic groups...We spoke with a half dozen campaign finance experts yesterday -- several sympathetic to the cause of the Republicans -- and they uniformly doubted that the FEC would ever agree to dismiss a bonafide complaint so quickly.

[KittyWampus]

2. Your Added Info Sure Makes The GOP Look Bad

yikes! Pretty blatant.