New media campaign urges voters to tell Bob Schaffer to clean up politics and repent for past wrongs related to Mariana Islands junket
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You'll be hearing much more about this in the coming weeks/months:
Check out http://www.schafferfacts.com, a co-production of Public Campaign Action Fund and ProgressNowAction, and watch it grow into what we hope will become the complete Bob Schaffer information resource in 2008.
Watchdog Group Unveils Ad Campaign To Hold Schaffer Accountable
Washington, DC - Today Campaign Money Watch announced a $100,000 television and radio ad campaign to educate voters about Colorado Senate candidate Bob Schaffer's record and to urge him to put voters ahead of donors and lobbyists.
The ads, now running in the Colorado Springs market, come after reports that Schaffer, as a Republican congressman, took a trip to the Northern Mariana Islands in 1999 paid for by a front group for convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Though he claimed to be on a fact-finding mission to investigate reports of worker abuse, including forced abortions, he had time for parasailing and took tours of factories - about which he recently said, "I did not observe a forced abortion." After the trip, he returned to Congress to defend the status quo.
"At the very same time this ad campaign begins in Colorado Springs, on President Bush's desk sits a bill awaiting his signature or his veto to extend American labor and immigration laws to the Northern Mariana Islands," said David Donnelly, director of Campaign Money Watch. "It is this very legislative result that Jack Abramoff spent years trying to prevent. And it was Schaffer, Tom DeLay, and others who helped Abramoff in succeeding for so many of those years.
"There are certainly other types of lessons from this story, but the political lessons are crystal clear: Abramoff is in federal prison today," Donnelly continued. "DeLay and many of his former colleagues who helped Abramoff are now out of public office."
The ads and all the documentation for them can be found at http://www.schafferfacts.com, where citizens can also sign a petition urging Schaffer to support passage of the legislation on President Bush's desk, donate a portion of his campaign funds to charities that aid the islands' workers, and support public financing legislation that addresses the root cause of the scandals that plague politics today.
Campaign Money Watch is a project of the nonpartisan Public Campaign Action Fund. The organization works to hold candidates who are against reform accountable for where they get their political donations.
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Check out http://www.schafferfacts.com, a co-production of Public Campaign Action Fund and ProgressNowAction, and watch it grow into what we hope will become the complete Bob Schaffer information resource in 2008.
