• DevCat@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Randall Terry is a lifelong pro-life activist who founded the Operation Rescue group, which he headed until 1991. He and the group were known for their controversial tactics targeting abortion clinics, blocking entrances and staging raucous protests as Terry and associates racked up dozens of arrests and enormous sums in civil judgments along the way.

    Please tie trump to this guy. The ads would write themselves.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “I am not going to win the presidency. I’m not running to win. I’m running to be the margin of defeat … in the swing states. Because I’m a federal candidate, I can run television ads 60 days from the election, and the TV stations are required by law to take them, so I can target Catholic and African-American voters in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania.”

    So, he admits that he is campaigning to elect Trump and his expenditures are actually intended to aid the Trump campaign rather than getting himself elected. That seems to me that this advertising an in kind contribution and, since it would exceed personal contribution limits, illegal under Federal Election laws.

    Any lawyers around who can confirm or refute that?

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    3 months ago

    It’s ironic that his strategy depends on what Federal law forces TV stations to do.