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Stations Refuse to Air Delay Ads

Published on January 12, 2006 | Email this article

At least three Houston television stations have declined to air ads targeting Republican Rep.
Tom DeLay, who is facing trial in Texas on charges of laundering campaign funds, AP reports (via Yahoo News).

The DeLay campaign sent letters to the stations threatening legal action, saying the spots, paid for by two liberal groups, Campaign for America’s Future and Public Campaign Action Fund, were deliberately misleading.

KHOU-TV, a CBS affiliate, announced on its 5 p.m. broadcast that it was skipping the ads because “not all the claims in the ad could be clearly substantiated from the source material.” ABC affiliate KTRK-TV and Fox affiliate KRIV-TV also declined to air the spot.

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