Word: cio
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Issue ads like these are flying under the radar of campaign-finance laws and into the living rooms of voters this election season. They came into vogue in 1996, when the AFL-CIO unleashed $20 million for ads targeting various members of Congress, and business groups retaliated. This year there's more money than ever going into making these ads, and more meanness being sunk into them...
While some prominent groups like the AFL-CIO are husbanding their resources this year for voter-mobilization drives, the political parties are getting in on the issue-ad bonanza. It's a doozy for Republicans. The National Republican Congressional Committee, which funds House races, figures to spend $28 million on issue ads in more than 30 states, a blitz dubbed Operation Breakout. That compares with $13 million in 1996. Democrats will spend $7 million, up $1 million from two years ago. The G.O.P. is expected to lay out $10 million on Senate races before the campaign is over. "The anticipation...
...money-loving Republican establishment. "They're dying to take the Feingold off McCain-Feingold," he says. Neumann, a former math teacher and homebuilder, argues that Feingold isn't the goody-goody he claims to be: over Feingold's objections, the League of Conservation Voters and the AFL-CIO have run a few advocacy ads criticizing Neumann. "It would be O.K. if he weren't such a hypocrite about it," says Neumann. "But he wants the Republican Party to go away and to leave the prim and proper Democrats alone." Last week Neumann, stuck in budget talks in Washington, excoriated Feingold...
...this respect, Sibal S. Holt, secretary-treasurer of the Louisiana chapter of the AFL-CIO, said she saw the Institute of Politics event as a success...
Thea Lee, an economist for the AFL-CIO, disagreed...