Hey – Does This Violate the People’s Pledge? (III)

(Another in a series)

From Politico’s Morning Score:

MASSACHUSETTS SENATE SNEAK PEEK – “ROMNEY + BROWN = BFF”: The Massachusetts Democratic Party will blast out a 60-second web video later this morning that links Romney with Sen. Scott Brown (lots of footage of them being chummy). The goal is to bracket Brown’s White House visits for bill signings. The vulnerable freshman has distanced himself from national Republicans and cozied up more to Obama than perhaps any other Senate Republican running for reelection, but he faces a very difficult balancing act dealing with his former governor (especially since several advisers overlap). Romney is almost certainly going to get trounced in the Bay State this November. Watch: http://bit.ly/HflC54.

The video:

Bromance, bro!

But at what cost? The other day Brown ponied up $35,000 in People’s Pledgebucks in the wake of an American Petroleum Institute ad campaign supporting his support for Big Oil subsidies.

According to ABC News:

After an oil lobbying group ran radio ads on his behalf, Brown was required to donate half the dollar amount spent on the ads to the charity of [Elizabeth] Warren’s choice under the stipulations of a pledge the two signed banning funding or advertisements from outside groups in their Senate race.

So is it now Warren’s turn to pony up?

What say ye, ElizaScott?

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2 Responses to Hey – Does This Violate the People’s Pledge? (III)

  1. It depends on the meaning of “blast out”, I guess. It does seem to be covered in “the pledge”. How much are they spending?

    But – I don’t see this at the Politico link you give. Perhaps they pulled it?

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