pajamasmedia.com - 8/19/2008
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Failing to include proper disclaimers on homemade signs could get you a visit from the FEC.
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"Political speech not as free as you thought"
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... You might want to talk
to Kirk Shelmerdine, former crew chief for Dale Earnhardt, who races in NASCAR as a field-filler. In 2004 he couldn’t
sell advertising on one panel of his car, so he committed the terrible federal crime of putting a Bush/Cheney decal on it.
Horror of horrors — he did not report the “value” of that decal to the FEC, thus violating the independent expenditure
reporting requirement. After an extensive investigation, the FEC got into a convoluted internal argument about what the value
of that decal placement ...
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* Sen. John McCain tours an oil rig platform near New Orleans, LA.
* Sen. Barack Obama speaks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention in Orlando, FL. Later, he holds a town hall meeting in Raleigh, NC.
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