[H]e can get away with being a foul-mouthed oath-breaker and a subversive gun-grabber because the district he’s running in is overwhelmingly Democrat. So it’s not like truth and decency are concerns from a constituency that would vote for any of the proto-Marxists in the field. His problem is, other candidates have raised significantly more money than he has, so he has to throw a desperate “Hail Mary” for name recognition and to stand out. [More]
He seems the last person to be dictating to the rest of us on the safe and responsible use of anything.
2 comments:
David,
Great article. Well worth the wait.
As for:
"That’s new to me, and it makes it fair to ask what else a candidate could run in a political ad that would otherwise be a regulatory violation."
Not new to me. It's a federal regulation that has been exploited a few times, usually using the S*** word.
This is a new low.
Here are the links to those PDFs:
* https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014
* https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=fclj
It was Barry Commoner from Common Cause who pioneered this legality.
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