LAT: Independent Ads Backers Tied To Arnold(Repug Group breaks law)

[Tiggeroshii]

'Independent' Ads’ Backers Tied to Gov.
A GOP group has given money that partially funded the TV spots to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, skirting disclosure rules.
By Peter Nicholas, Times Staff Writer
7:15 PM PDT, April 15, 2006


SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A television ad campaign portrayed as an independent effort to help Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been bankrolled partly by a group with deep ties to his political operation.

An official of the New Majority, a Southern California Republican group at the core of Schwarzenegger's fundraising apparatus, said its members have given about $1 million to the Washington, D.C., business group that is the public face of the ads: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ads16apr16,0,354010.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Up2Late]

1. But since the GOP did it, it's probably O.K....

:mad:

[Merlot]

2. Those commercials are appalling and nothing less than a campaign ad

To pretend anything else is insulting. The C of C has really become the C of GOP.

Without fixed machines there isn't a chance he'd be elected.

[NVMojo]

3. I believe they have been the Chamber of GOP for years ...