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[IA-1] Candidates to replace Nussle in a tussle over television ad
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 05, 2005 08:26pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, December 6, 2005 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Alexander Bolton
The Republican primary to replace Rep. Jim Nussle (R-Iowa) took a contentious turn last week when candidate Brian Kennedy filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against restaurateur Mike Whalen.
Kennedy, the former chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, Whalen and state Rep. Bill Dix are the top contenders for the GOP nomination in a district that Nussle has represented for eight terms.
In a letter to the FEC, Carol Earnhardt, Kennedy’s campaign manager, charged that Whalen accepted an illegal corporate contribution by coordinating his political campaign and a television ad aired by Machine Shed Restaurants Inc. and its parent company Heart of America Restaurants Inc. Whalen is president and CEO of both companies, according to the complaint.
Perhaps most troublesome for Whalen’s campaign, the corporate ad, which features Whalen prominently, was reported to have been produced by Whalen’s lead political consultant, Steve Grubbs, who works for Victory Enterprises. News of Grubbs’s role was reported after Whalen’s spokesman, Brian Dumas, told reporters the ad was not created by consultants to the campaign, according to a section of Kennedy’s complaint titled “Factual Background.”
“Such activity is a calculated effort to evade the strict prohibition on corporate contributions to federal campaigns and has resulted in illegal corporate contributions and illegal coordinated communications,” wrote Earnhardt in the complaint, which she sent to Scott Thomas, the chairman of the FEC. |
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