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The Blog for Thursday, October 06, 2005

"Shadowy" Group Touts Tom

    And so it begins:
    The first ads of the 2006 governor's race have hit Florida's airwaves in Florida, bankrolled by a shadowy fund-raising group that says it promotes conservative causes.

    Though the election is still a year away, radio ads began airing this week praising Chief Financial Officer and Republican candidate Tom Gallagher as "a fiscal conservative in the [Florida Gov.] Jeb Bush tradition."

    In particular, the 30-second spots, which are running in Orlando on the conservative talk-radio station 540 AM, highlight Gallagher's support for more restrictions on civil lawsuits. Gallagher, a narrator tells listeners, "has a record that strikes fear" in personal injury lawyers. ...

    The ads were paid for by a group called the "Conservative Education Network", a committee known as a "527" after a section of the IRS code that is able to raise unlimited amounts of money. A trio of Tallahassee lobbyists -- including Geoffrey Becker, a former Republican Party of Florida executive director, and Slater Bayliss, a former Bush staffer -- formed the committee earlier this summer.
    "First ads air in race for governor". Try not to laugh, but this is the stuff that apparently turns on GOoPer primary voters:
    "Jeb Bush must leave office because of term limits - and Florida needs another job-creating champion. Twenty years ago, it was Tom Gallagher who fought for real lawsuit reform. Today, Tom Gallagher has a record that strikes fear in the personal injury lawyers who profit from lawsuit abuse. Take a look at Tom Gallagher - a fiscal conservative, in the Jeb Bush tradition," says the ad running in the Tampa Bay area and other parts of the state.
    "New radio ad out the gate in 2006 race for governor".

    Bill Cotterell warns: "Don't fall for distorted ads from 'independent' groups"..

4:37 AM

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