Public Campaign Action Fund - Ads - Comments

Schaffer ad

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:53:49 -0500

I am so sick of hearing your he said - she said ad on TV about Bob Schaffer. It is having a negative effect on my views. I'm starting to believe that your ad is just a bunch of political malarky, and that Bob Schaffer is a victim of your ad. It is making me thing more favorably about Bob Schaffer. Please pull your stupid ad.

Maine Clean Elections Act

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:54:48 -0500

Hello, My name is Brian Ward and I am a student at Towson University (Just North of Baltimore, MD) and I am currently writing a paper about the Clean Elections in Maine and I saw that you were the campaign director of the referendum in 1996. I just wanted to get some information from you about the struggle in 1996 and now. Here are couple of questions if you don't mind answering: Why were you in support of this Bill? Who were your allies (elected officials or organizations)? Why did this bill come up in the first place, was there a scandal of some sort? What is the your organizations' perspective on the bill? Do you think it doesn't go far enough? You can add whatever else you want. Thank you so much, my paper is due on Thursday, October 18th. You can email at brian.ward.j@gmail.com me anytime if you have any questions. Thank you. Brian

Support affordable medical care insurance for all children

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:05:20 -0500

It won't be a brighter future with no health care for our youth today.

health insurance for kids

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:03:03 -0500

I PLEAD WITH YOU TO INSURE OUR CHILDREN.

Ad and Clean Elections

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:25:35 -0500

Thank you all for posting your comments here -- it is great to see debate on this issue. Public Campaign Action Fund, in addition to advocating for Clean Elections has as a part of its mission the goal to raise awareness about ties between special interest money and legislators and the unfavorable policy atmosphere that results. Many of our ad campaigns have this focus. We have found it's an important component in defining the problem which Clean Elections addresses and brings lots of new people to the work. The majority of our work, and the work of our sister org Public Campaign is spreading the word about Clean Elections which, as you rightly pointed out, many voters think is a great idea once they've heard about it. So, we do both!

The Ad has the wrong Focus

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:53:39 -0500

I'm not sure I understand your post. I would argue that the ad does not represent Clean Elections so much as it bashes another candidate. Clean Elections asks for our money to run the ad, but I don't see how it gets across the clean elections message. I really doubt that many people will go to the website (listed for three seconds at the end of the add) which is the ONLY reference to clean elections in the entire ad! Why don't we spend the money sending informational packets to registered voters? Most of my friends have never even heard of clean elections, but when I explain it they think its a great idea. "Protesting is good, having an alternative is better" -Jim Wallis

Claim that AD is off target

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:18:32 -0500

Wrong! Clearly you are not looking at this ad subjectively. You are looking at this ad as a smear campaign. Try looking at this ad again, thinking how low some people have to go, in order to get enough money to run their reelection campaign just to keep that power. This AD clearly shows a great need for public campaign financing and while it is being set up, include sharp teeth in this, that everyone, regardless of their wealth, must participate in this manner of obtaining all of their campaign money for all federal elective positions and no other money will be acceptable from anyone! Otherwise a person with the wealth of someone like Mr. Bill Gates could practically buy the presidency. Witness the recent event of the Mayor of NYC, Mr. Bloomberg, a multi billionaire thinking of running for President, but changed his mind. Imagine such a person with fewer scruples, but same amount of money and willing to spend almost all of those multibillions for that office! Then if someone did something like that ad shows being done, nail that person because it would not be needed for reelection, it would be for themself.

This ad is off target

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:15:08 -0500

The ad weakens the campaign for publicly financed elections. It is obviously partisan and is an example of EXACTLY what we condemn, on principle: buying air time for negative attack ads! PFCs is not a partisan issue. In any case, the issues you tried to use as fulcrums, for triangulation (information devices, and the body armor issue) are offensive to experts in those two domains. You're outside your depth and you took the opposite position to experts working to inform educate and communicate in the third world with information devices, such as Negroponte.

Campaign Finance Reform or Candidate Bashing?

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:11:24 -0500

I fail to see how this ad promotes the adoption of clean elections. In all honesty it looks like a smear ad invented by Mr. McConnel's opponents. I have a hard time believing that this furthers the clean election cause.
Also, the Afghani tribesmen were portrayed as automatic rifle toting terrorists, which I find down right insulting.
Overall, I'm not impressed with the advertisement and I don't see how it furthers Clean Elections. I don't know why we're being asked to pay for it.

Mitch McConnel

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:28:32 -0500

Sunlight is the best antiseptic -in politics as in Nature. Let the sunshine in! http://www.youtube.com/gyrfalconeye

What a thought provoking

Mon, 28 May 2007 10:50:47 -0500

What a thought provoking post, thank you.