GOP Pushes Democrats on Angelides Ads

Duf Sundheim, chairman of the California GOP, has written his counterpart over at the Democratic Party, Art Torres, asking whether he is still running "issue ads" supporting Phil Angelides. The state is now inside the 45-day window before an election, which means political parties are prohibited from running soft-money ads that support or oppose candidates. That is, unless the ads are produced independently of the candidate. Duf writes:

"If you are airing these ads paid for with soft money, you are in violation of the law and you are obligated to inform those media outlets who continue to run them to cease and desist from airing these ads immediately."

Here is an earlier post on this.