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Article: Brennan Center Releases New Analysis of Political Television Data
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 14, 2001
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NEW YORK, March 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released
today by the Brennan Center:
-- $100 Million In Sham Issue Ads Escaped Disclosure Laws In
2000; Groups Took Advantage Of Broken System To Attack Candidates
While Concealing Donors
-- Proposal in McCain-Feingold Bill Would Have Appropriately
Required Disclosure of Group Ad Spending 99 percent Of The Time, And
Captured Only Two Genuine Issue Ads
-- 72 percent of Electioneering Ads Paid For By Groups Were
Attack Ads; Less than 20 percent Of Candidate-Sponsored Ads Were
Negative
As Congress readies itself for historic debate on campaign
finance reform scheduled to begin next week, a new analysis of data
on political television ...