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For immediate release:
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
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For more information:
www.students4reform.com
Charles Juntikka 212 315-4965
Gail Lin 917 710-8450 |
NEWS ADVISORY
STUDENTS HIT PATAKI WITH NEGATIVE
TV ADS ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
"Pataki Scandalathon" To Feature Dozens of Ads on Union Boss "Rivera" Budget
Deal, Pataki's Wife's Relative's Deal & Other Scandals Say Student Leaders
Bruno, Spano Also Assailed on Failure to Fight for Campaign Finance Reform,
Silver, Tonko, Magnarelli, Higgins Targeted For Opposing Lobby Bill "Gift Ban"
All 211 Legislators Receive CD's of Student TV Ads 0n Monday, April 8, 2002
The first negative tv ads of the year attacking Pataki aired lasted night, but they were not run by any candidates or political parties. Dozens of highly negative ads began airing across the state on Sunday April 7th by Students4Reform.com, a group of students dedicated to lobby & campaign finance reform. "Since the Pataki Administration has had at least six major scandals, we are airing a scandal a day for six days and calling it the Pataki Scandalathon", said Li Lin of Harvard University and a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City as are most of the students4reformers.
Ads will air on Albany's WRGB on the six and eleven o'clock news, on Good Morning America in Albany, Rochester, and New York City, all week between 7 and 8 p.m. citywide on NY1 and on local network news in Buffalo, Syracuse and on NewsTwelve in the NYC suburbs.
The ads encourage viewers to contribute to their campaign to keep the ads running until Pataki, Silver and Bruno adopt campaign finance and lobby reform. "Let us know what ads you like and when and where you want them to run." said Olga Kaplan of Wellesley College. "Viewers should call in their contributions to our website - if they want reform."
One ad entitled, "Oil Spill" depicts politicians dirty with oil and dollar bills rolling in the surf of a ocean beach. The ad, produced by NYU film dept. students Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert, is accompanied by soaring operatic music and ends with a call for campaign finance reform. A second ad, that airs immediately after "Oil Spill", begins with the children's song "The wheels on the bus go round and round". It shows a D- on a chalk board - the grade the students say the New York Times Editorial Board gave Pataki on "ethics and fundraising". It concludes with Pataki wearing a hand-drawn "dunce cap" and the announcer calling for Pataki to support campaign finance and lobby reform or resign.
In addition, all 211 Albany legislators received CD copies of the ads on Monday, April 8th. The Bruno-Spano TV ads criticized them for failing to fight for "real" campaign finance reform which the students define as Bill no. A8524a.
The Silver, Tonko, Magnarelli and Higgins TV ads target them for their failure to support a lobby reform gift ban originally backed by Bruno in the State Senate. Silver and the others defeated a similar measure in the Assembly in a closed door Democratic caucus about two years ago.
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