Colorado: CREW files complaint against U.S. Term Limits for pro-Schaffer ad
The Rocky Mountain News reports: A Washington, D.C.-based group has filed an elections complaint over an ad where school children repeatedly thank U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer for his commitment to charter schools.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington says the ad violated election laws in two ways.
The spot was paid for by U.S. Term Limits, a Virginia group, to thank Schaffer for keeping his pledge to serve only three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Schaffer, a Fort Collins Republican, left office in 2002. He faces U.S. Rep. Mark Udall, D-Eldorado Springs, in the U.S. Senate race.
CREW noted that a written disclaimer at the end of the ad says U.S. Term Limits does not endorse candidates for public office. But when the group posted the ad on YouTube.com, it labeled the spot Bob Schaffer for Senate video. -- Pro-Schaffer ad draws complaint : Elections : The Rocky Mountain News