Friday, October 29, 2010

Does NKY Tea Party ad skirt campaign laws?

Following the article When is an endorsement an endorsement? posted on this blog the following article appeared in The Enquirer.

Does NKY Tea Party ad skirt campaign laws?

The Kentucky Enquirer - An ad by the Northern Kentucky Tea Party has caused some people, including the Boone County attorney, to question whether the group has violated Kentucky's campaign finance laws.

Click here to read the article

Unique campaign sign

This is one of the most unique campaign signs that has been observed running around in Alexandria.

When is an endorsement an endorsement?

Judging by this ad (shown below) that appeared in The Alexandria Recorder October 28, 2010 it appears that The Northern Kentucky Tea Party is endorsing the list of candidates that it has prominently named in the ad.

But wait.

Reading the fine print at the bottom of the ad it states, “The Northern Kentucky Tea Party does not endorse or financially support candidates for public office”.

It goes on to say, “The above candidates have indicated support and promote the Tea Party principles if elected”.

The ad lists a candidate for mayor and one candidate for city council.

The fine print goes on to say, “There may be other candidates who support the principles of the Northern Kentucky Tea Party but have not made their support known.”

What a crock. We contacted some candidates that are not listed in the ad and they have told us that they were never contacted by the Tea Party in regards to their views but that they also haven’t regularly attended Tea Party meetings.

We can only conclude that in order to make the list the only criteria used was whether or not an individual went to a lot of Tea Party meetings and paid lip service. There was no effort to reach out to the other candidates and solicit their views.

The ad also states that the Northern Kentucky Tea Party “promotes the principles of fiscal responsibility, limited government and free markets”.

The ad urges you to vote yes on the adoption of the Justice of the Peace form of government for Campbell County which is in essence bigger government as it goes from 3 commissioners to 8 justices.

An ad that appears to be political endorsements but says in fine print that it is not and says the organization is for limited government but endorses expanded government seems like a group that hasn’t quite gotten its act together.

We said it earlier but feel compelled to say it again, what a crock.

You be the judge.

We can’t rely on Lloyd Rogers

Round two of the Anti-Lloyd Rogers ads. This one appeared in The Alexandria Recorder on October 28, 2010.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Open Letter to Alexandria Citizens from Bill Rachford

There were some interesting ads in The Alexandria Recorder October 28, 2010 edition.

Here is one of them.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Lloyd Rogers – The History He Wants You To Forget

Here is a paid advertisement that ran in The Alexandria Recorder October 21, 2010 Page B7.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Ghost writer?

In the Viewpoints section, page A9 of the October 14, 2010 edition of the Alexandria Recorder there appeared an article titled “Keep Dan McGinley – he’s a ‘proven leader’” by guest columnist Robert Feinauer including Mr. Feinauer’s picture.

The article reads like Mayor McGinley’s claimed accomplishments, campaign statements and talking points.

For someone who seems so well informed no one seems to ever remember seeing Mr. Feinauer in attendance at any council meetings.

Could Mr. Feinauer have a ghost writer?

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