Here They Come
As the elections roll around, the special interest groups with the feel-good names rear their ugly heads once more.
Today, it's the "Coalition For America's Families." Nice beautiful sounding name. But in the end, they use their issue ads to spread lies, fabrications, and half-truths.
Here's more.
http://ineffect.blogspot.com/2006/07/cfaf-ad-is-par-for-course.html
And for more on the CFAF, courtesy of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign:
http://www.wisdc.org/
Coalition for America's Families
The Coalition for America’s Families surfaced in the 2002 elections and spent undisclosed amounts on negative issue advertising to support Republican legislative candidates. The 2002 elections gave Republicans control of the Senate.
The Virginia-based group describes itself as a coalition of businesses, non-profit organizations and others. The group is led by Steve King, a conservative Republican who once headed the state GOP and now runs Tomah Products in Milton .
In April 2006, the group launched a statewide radio ad campaign telling people to urge their state senator to support a proposed constitutional amendment to control tax increases dubbed the Taxpayer Protection Amendment. The advertisement also told people that Democratic Governor Jim Doyle was opposed to the amendment and Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green supported it even though a governor plays no role in approving or rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment.
In January 2006, the coalition joined the Alliance for Choices in Education and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce to air radio ads that told Doyle to lift the 15,000-pupil cap on Milwaukee school voucher program, commonly known as school choice. The program uses state taxpayer money to pay for low-income Milwaukee school children to attend private schools. One of the ads likened Doyle to two southern white governors who tried to block school desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s by standing in schoolhouse entrances.
Doyle later expanded the program 50 percent to serve 22,500 pupils.
The group also ran ads in 2005 condemning provisions in Doyle’s proposed state budget to let illegal aliens receive in-state college tuition and to use state tax money to pay for domestic partner health care coverage.
The group’s 2006 and 2005 ads are posted at CFAF's website.
In 2002, the group aired radio ads against Democratic Senator Jim Baumgart of Sheboygan and Kim Plache of Racine, who ended up losing their reelections.
Thanks to the internet, it is now easier for voters to find out the truth behind the people who put out the sleaze and filth in the issue ads. Rest assured, there will be more.
Today, it's the "Coalition For America's Families." Nice beautiful sounding name. But in the end, they use their issue ads to spread lies, fabrications, and half-truths.
Here's more.
http://ineffect.blogspot.com/2006/07/cfaf-ad-is-par-for-course.html
And for more on the CFAF, courtesy of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign:
http://www.wisdc.org/
Coalition for America's Families
The Coalition for America’s Families surfaced in the 2002 elections and spent undisclosed amounts on negative issue advertising to support Republican legislative candidates. The 2002 elections gave Republicans control of the Senate.
The Virginia-based group describes itself as a coalition of businesses, non-profit organizations and others. The group is led by Steve King, a conservative Republican who once headed the state GOP and now runs Tomah Products in Milton .
In April 2006, the group launched a statewide radio ad campaign telling people to urge their state senator to support a proposed constitutional amendment to control tax increases dubbed the Taxpayer Protection Amendment. The advertisement also told people that Democratic Governor Jim Doyle was opposed to the amendment and Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green supported it even though a governor plays no role in approving or rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment.
In January 2006, the coalition joined the Alliance for Choices in Education and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce to air radio ads that told Doyle to lift the 15,000-pupil cap on Milwaukee school voucher program, commonly known as school choice. The program uses state taxpayer money to pay for low-income Milwaukee school children to attend private schools. One of the ads likened Doyle to two southern white governors who tried to block school desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s by standing in schoolhouse entrances.
Doyle later expanded the program 50 percent to serve 22,500 pupils.
The group also ran ads in 2005 condemning provisions in Doyle’s proposed state budget to let illegal aliens receive in-state college tuition and to use state tax money to pay for domestic partner health care coverage.
The group’s 2006 and 2005 ads are posted at CFAF's website.
In 2002, the group aired radio ads against Democratic Senator Jim Baumgart of Sheboygan and Kim Plache of Racine, who ended up losing their reelections.
Thanks to the internet, it is now easier for voters to find out the truth behind the people who put out the sleaze and filth in the issue ads. Rest assured, there will be more.
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