Campaign Finance Reform and Ads question

[Norcom]

I posted this in the Politics/Elections section and it has gotten no action in several hours. I am hoping that maybe it will get some action here.

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With the CFR that was passed and the ban on advertisements prior to an election I was wondering, when do candidates have to stop running campaign ads prior to the coming primaries?

And how negative of an impact is that going to have on those not in 1st or 2nd place come primary day since they have been unable to get out their message unless the press covered them?

Personally, I think it is an absolute and total assault on the 1st Amendment, but thats a discussion for another thread.

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[Feanorcurufinwe]

1. I think you are misinformed about what is in the law.

"ban on advertisements prior to an election" ? Huh? What are you talking about?

[HFishbine]

2. They don't

You are confusing issue ads and candidate ads. Candidates can run ads until the polls close (even after, if they thought that would help -- and it might). CFR has a provision that disallowed issue ads 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a general election. That provision is currently being considered by the Surpreme Court. (The ACLU is against it, the League of Women Voters is for it.)

http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=13477&c=20

http://interactive.lwv.org/News/News.cfm?ID=671&c=1

[Norcom]

3. Thanks

Thanks