Some Groups to Run Ads Until Election Day

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WASHINGTON - Right up to the day before the Nov. 2 election, voters could see television ads accusing President Bush (news - web sites) of limiting abortion and spoiling the environment. Four groups — nonpartisan but distinctly liberal — say the rules of the campaign finance law don't apply to them, a claim no one is disputing.



NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) Action Fund, the League of Conservation Voters and the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund can be on the air attacking Bush and promoting Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) when most other groups can't — and at a time when voters are paying close attention to the presidential race.


"We're going to communicate with them on the air as aggressively as we can in the last 60 days," said Beth Shipp, NARAL's political director.


In December, the Supreme Court upheld the 2002 law that bans interest group ads that identify federal candidates in the two months before a general election if they are paid for with "soft money" — unlimited amounts of corporate, union and individual donations.

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1. Good for them!

I am a member of two of these organizations. I guess I'll have to sign on with the other two as well!

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2. Defenders of Wildlife is an excellent org to donate to.

They really live up to their name.

http://www.defenders.org