ELECTION 2004
WASHINGTON - Is anybody fit for office any more? A Florida congressman casts his foe as a religious extremist, "Taliban Dan." A challenger in West Virginia stresses a lawmaker's Arab-American ancestry as shadowy and foreign. Other candidates are nothing but liars, misers, cheaters, even traitors, judging by the 30-second TV attacks.
Madison -- With the state Supreme Court election looming on April 1, TV ads from third-party groups have so far been driving the campaign. Both Justice Louis Butler and Burnett County Circuit Judge Mike Gableman have decried the ads against them. Butler has called for all third-party groups to "stand down" from participating in the race, and Gableman's campaign said he would prefer to go head to head with Butler.
The next 79 days in Evansville will bring all the trappings of a noisy, high-octane fall general election campaign - glad-handing candidates, yard signs, ads, door knockers and more. But the May 3 Democratic primary election to choose a nominee for mayor will be a different animal, and not just because of the springtime intensity.
In an increasingly testy campaign, state Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler on Wednesday accused his challenger, Burnett County Circuit Judge Michael Gableman, of "blatantly and knowingly" misrepresenting facts and besmirching the dignity of the job. In response, Gableman said the comments showed Butler was stooping to personal attacks, then repeated his description of Butler as a "judicial activist" intent on imposing his will on the law.
Obama campaign launches its first ads WASHINGTON - With an eye on recruiting volunteers, President Barack Obama is launching the first TV ads of his re-election campaign.
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Debra Gersh Hernandez, Coordinator, Sunshine Week of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, +1-703-807-2100, dghernandez@asne.org
Tucked away on page 4 of The Roanoke Times of Jan. 22 was an Associated Press bombshell reporting the U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 decision to overturn precedent and allow companies (and by the same reasoning labor unions and other organizations) to fund election campaign ads without limits ("Split court eases limits on election spending"). It doesn't require a constitutional lawyer to recognize the devastating effect this decision will have on the democratic process. The majority held that restraints on direct political advertising by corporations violated the right of free speech. Thus, the court ruled that use of money equates to speech, which clearly illustrates that some of the smartest guys in the room can make the worst decisions.
WASHINGTON - When Harry Reid, the No. 1 Democrat in the Senate, began his re-election campaign last year, he ran ads touting his ability to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in federal largess back to Nevada. From Vegas to Reno, Carson City to Elko, he's helped build roads, hospitals and schools," said an early television ad.
Denver -- As Democrats put on a unified face Monday, Republicans eagerly worked to undermine the effort by putting a onetime Hillary Rodham Clinton delegate from Wisconsin -- and Clinton herself -- at the center of their anti-Barack Obama message. With polls suggesting Obama has not won over a host of Clinton supporters, state delegates acknowledged there is still work to do.
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