And MORE: Some Ads against Bush sponsored by Lewis and Soros thrugh Moveon.org 527:
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Donors:
Money provided by Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Corp., and financier George Soros
527 Activity:
Total Receipts: $9,086,102
Total Expenditures: $17,435,782
Note: This data is based on records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Sunday, August 15, 2004.
Events:
Event Type
Budget
Date
Candidate
Position
TV Ad
$700,000
7/21/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
Title: "Debate"; This latest MoveOn.org ad is scheduled to run in Ohio, Nevada, New York, and Washington DC. Bush and Kerry are shown standing at debate podiums. Bush morphs into a series of “executives” who thank Bush for giving them tax breaks for sending jobs overseas and allowing them to pollute, while Kerry morphs into a Factory Worker, a Mother, and a sick child. The announcer ends the ad by describing Bush and Kerry as “the corporations’ choice or the people’s choice”.
TV Ad
Unknown
7/12/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
Title: "Gay Marriage"; This MoveOn ad ran nationally on CNN and locally in New York and Washington, during Senate debate of the Federal Marriage Amendment. The ad shows a man and a woman, criticizing various failings of the Bush administration. When the man mentions that Bush is against gay marriage, the woman replies, “who on earth would fall for that?”. A voice-over then concludes, “tell President Bush to work on the real problems we face.”
TV Ad
$500,000
6/22/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
Title: "Burgers"; MoveOn ran this ad throughout Ohio on both cable and network TV. The ad focuses on outsourcing, chronicling the story of a middle-aged man who has “put in 30 years at the company” until his job gets sent overseas, while “under George Bush, the company get a tax break”. The man puts a fast-food employee’s hat on while the voice-over claims, “We’re not being led. We’re being misled”.”
TV Ad
$1,000,000
6/15/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
Title: "Platter"; MoveOn ran this ad in Ohio, Missouri, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington, DC. The ad focuses on claims that Halliburton drastically overcharged the government after receiving no-bid contracts for Iraq. President Bush is criticized for “still doing business with them” and the ad concludes with the message “George Bush: A failure of leadership”.
TV Ad
Unknown
5/25/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
Title: ”Hooded”; MoveOn.org began running ads calling for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week. The television “Hooded” ad is slated to run in 14 major cities across the U.S. The ad features an image of the Statue of Liberty, with a hood placed over the head. A voice-over announces that Rumsfeld initiated the plan that ended with the abuse of prisoners at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad. The ad closes by asking why President Bush hasn’t fired Rumsfeld. No budget figures were released for this ad.
Radio Ad
Unknown
5/25/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
Title: “Rumsfeld”; A companion piece to the TV ad “Hooded”, “Rumsfeld” is slated to air on the radio in an additional 10 cities. This ad faults Rumsfeld for several problems including the prisoner abuse scandal, faulty intelligence over the weapons of mass destruction, and inadequate military supplies. The ad ends by urging listeners to call Senator Joe Biden, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and ask him to call for Rumsfeld’s removal. In addition to this ad, the group will be joining members of TrueMajority.org in visiting representatives to make the same demand of them. There were no budget figures released for this ad campaign.
TV Ad
$115,000
4/27/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
John Kerry (D)
Positive
Title: “Kerry/Bush”; The newest ad from MoveOn.org shows the differences between the military records of George Bush and John Kerry. It opens with scenes from the movie Brothers In Arms, a documentary about Kerry and his crew. The ad mentions that Kerry braved enemy gunfire to rescue one of his men. It then shifts to Bush’s record with the National Guard, pointing out that he missed physicals, wasn’t seen for several months and was released early from the Guard to attend business school. The ad cost $115000 and airs nationally on Fox News Channel and on CNN in the New York and DC metro areas.
TV Ad
$200,000 in the initial buy
4/7/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
This ad, funded by MoveOn.org PAC, speculates about what “President Bush would say when he testified before the Sept. 11 investigatory committee.” A male voice, imitating the president, “testifies” that he was “obsessed with Iraq and used terrorists attacks as an excuse to invade Iraq.” To bolster its claims, MoveOn.org PAC also includes in the ad Richard Clarke’s testimony that the war in Iraq has greatly undermined the war on terror. The ad is said to have been released to coincide with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before the 9/11 commission. The ad runs April 7-April 1h on CNN.
TV Ad
At least $200,000.
3/26/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
MoveOn's ad cites testimony by President Bush's former counterterrorism adviser, Richard Clarke. Clarke has said that President Bush could have done more to prevent 9/11. The ad concludes by blaming Bush for "a failure of leadership." MoveOn.org PAC ran the ad on CNN from March 29-April 2.
TV Ad
$150,000
3/19/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
MoveOn.org’s “Censure Bush” campaign began in February, and continues into March with TV, print ads, and petitions to Congress. The TV Ads are running for a week in Washington and New York, and call for Congress to censure Bush. The print ads in the New York Times and the Washington Post claim that the Administration “ran a campaign of misinformation” to pave the way for the Iraq war. In addition, Moveon.org is sending 500,000 petitions to Congress calling for censure. The petitions were solicited from their website and members.
TV Ad
$1.9 million initially
3/4/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
MoveOn.org Voter Fund will launch a new ad and repeat its "Child's Pay" spot in 17 key states for a four-day run beginning March 4. The new ad highlights workers' concerns about overtime pay and outsourcing.
Radio Ad
$50,000
2/18/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
The ad encourages listeners to demand that Congress censure President Bush for leading the country into war in Iraq. The spot aired in Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico and Tennessee.
TV Ad
$1.5 million
2/12/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
The ad pictures a polygraph with its needles moving at a frenetic pace as President Bush makes the case for going to war with Iraq in his January 2003 State of the Union address. The spot, a finalist in MoveOn’s “Bush in 30 Seconds” ad contest, is set to run for two weeks in five swing states.
TV Ad
Ad ran nationwide on CNN from Jan. 20-25, costing about $300,000
1/20/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
The winner of MoveOn.org Voter Fund's "Bush in 30 Seconds" ad contest, this spot shows footage of children taking out trash, cleaning dishes and toiling on assembly lines. The ad asks, "Guess who's going to pay off President Bush's $1 trillion deficit?" MoveOn launched the ad Jan. 20, the day of the president's State of the Union address. The group planned to air the ad during the Super Bowl on Feb. 2, but CBS refused to broadcast it.
TV Ad
The ad ran a second time, from Jan. 22-Feb. 6, 2004, for $1.9 million.
1/17/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
The MoveOn.org Voter Fund ad shows footage of President Bush giving a State of the Union address while a voice imitating Bush tells viewers: "My Medicare bill has real drug benefits--but not for you--for my contributors at the big drug companies." The ad ran on cable networks in the days leading up to the president's Jan. 20 State of the Union. MoveOn extended its ad buy to Florida, West Virginia, Ohio, Missouri and Nevada markets in the week after the State of the Union.
TV Ad
The ad cost $1.2 million to air Florida, Nevada, Ohio and West Virginia.
1/13/2004
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
This 30-second spot shows a dark figure pulling the rug out from underneath senior citizens who are reading a newspaper story on Congress' passage of the Medicare bill in November. The ad accuses President Bush of "pulling the rug out from under Medicare" by supporting the bill, which "forbids Medicare from negotiating lower prescription drug prices" and "prevents getting lower priced prescriptions from Canada." Sponsored by MoveOn.org Voter Fund.
TV and Print Ad
approximately $300,000
12/8/2003
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
The ads criticize the Bush administration and Republican Congressional leaders for “a string of special interest giveaways” in the Omnibus bill, or what MoveOn.org Voter Fund calls “the most outrageous Christmas list in America.” The ads, which ran in the Washington Post and aired on cable stations nationally, suggest that the bill’s provisions would reward TV networks and other Bush campaign contributors and punish American workers.
Print Ad
unknown
11/24/2003
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
The ad excerpts portions of a speech by former Vice President Al Gore attacking the Patriot Act and the current administration’s alleged abuse of civil liberties. Published one time each in USA Today and the New York Times, the ad also solicits contributions from readers to help “fund this and similar advertisements.”
TV Ad
approximately $175,000
11/22/2003
George W. Bush (R)
Negative
The ad, which ran in Washington and 16 other cities, attacks President Bush’s economic record by pointing to the more than 2 million jobs lost since he took office. It also questions the idea of tax cuts as a means of creating jobs.
Figures are from media reports and the like, and may not reflect what 527 groups have reported to the Internal Revenue Service. |
