The television ads serve as coming attractions of a sort for the 2016 campaign, for which politically minded donors have already given half a billion dollars to candidates and outside groups eager to back them. Add in campaign finance regulations that are still evolving in the wake of the landmark Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United, and it's easier than ever for all kinds of groups to wade into politics and do so in ways that keep from the public the identities of who is paying for it all. Filled with children, workers and people of different ethnicities, the ads promote Republicans as interested in creating jobs, improving access to education and caring for the middle class. Representatives of the Republican National Committee, the Republican Governors Association, the Ohio Republican Party and six well-known Republican outside groups all said they were not familiar with Opportunity News Media, even though the group is doing more to promote the GOP on television right now than anyone else. [...] while Hart compares the ads to MSNBC's "Lean Forward" campaign, which cheers progressive and left-leaning ideas while aiming to build brand identification for the cable news network, the Opportunity News Media commercials do not promote the news site. Bill Kristol, founder of the conservative political magazine The Weekly Standard, was one four board members of that group as of 2013, according to its most recent tax documents available online. The portrayal of Republicans in the commercials comes as several of the GOP presidential candidates are trying to rally the party's most conservative voters in ways that don't fit with the recommendations of the party's 2012 post-mortem. On the debate stage last week, for example, several candidates emphasized their staunch opposition to abortion and to an overhaul of the nation's immigration system that isn't focused on border security.
Pro-republican Ads Funded By Group With Untraceable Donors
By JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Fri, 08/14/2015 - 8:56am
Topics: lean forward add supreme court citizens united filled representatives republican national committee republican governors association ohio republican party hart bill kristol the weekly standard republican republicans on opportunity news media gop the ads group campaign candidates promote commercials ways
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