Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:34 AM

Akin TV Ad Buy Canceled — For Failure To Pay The Station

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Rep. Todd Akin’s effort to continue his bid for the Missouri Senate seat is now faced with a new challenge: Paying the campaign’s bills for TV ads on time.

The Akin campaign’s TV ad buy with the NBC affiliate in Columbia was canceled by the station, according to CBS radio in St. Louis. The campaign had paid the first half of the buy, but the station did not receive the other half. The TV station also said that it has confirmed that other stations have been put in the same position.

The Akin campaign told CBS radio that the payment problem was a scheduling mistake, and the next checks are on their way.

Akin has been frozen out of conventional Republican fundraising efforts, following his false comment that women’s bodies can prevent pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape,” and the GOP’s efforts to pressure him to drop out. Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus declared last week, “He could be tied. We’re not gonna send him a penny.”

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14 replies	Author	Time	Post
Akin TV Ad Buy Canceled — For Failure To Pay The Station (Original post)	highplainsdem	Sep 2012	OP
Didn't anyone explain to Akin?	DFW	Sep 2012	#1
Duzy nt	Kalidurga	Sep 2012	#2
Show half of the ads and black out the second half. nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Sep 2012	#3
Having trouble carrying that campaign to term, Todd?	JBoy	Sep 2012	#4
well	heaven05	Sep 2012	#5
When I was in radio in the 70s there was a hard and fast rule	rsdsharp	Sep 2012	#12
unfair, unfair.	daybranch	Sep 2012	#6
Akin broke the 11th Commandment:	formercia	Sep 2012	#10
Rove will break down and give him superpac money. They don't want to lose.	kimbutgar	Sep 2012	#7
Cardinal Dolan will send him a donation.	jerseyjack	Sep 2012	#8
The deadline for him to drop out hasn't expired yet.	Lone_Star_Dem	Sep 2012	#9
Where is Huckabee? Where are all the RW so called "Christians"	Iliyah	Sep 2012	#11
It's too bad that ...	bayareaboy	Sep 2012	#13
Locking - duplicate	cyberswede	Sep 2012	#14

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:41 AM

DFW (13,333 posts)

1. Didn't anyone explain to Akin?

A legitimate non-payment can lead to a forcible cancellation.

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Response to DFW (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:49 AM

Kalidurga (4,819 posts)

2. Duzy nt

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:56 AM

Bernardo de La Paz (7,142 posts)

3. Show half of the ads and black out the second half. nt

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:04 AM

JBoy (7,462 posts)

4. Having trouble carrying that campaign to term, Todd?

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:11 AM

heaven05 (2,369 posts)

5. well

proves to me that money is a true god in this country. if a right wing media outlet will eat it's own in the name of getting paid or not,the bottom line is king. Damn you akin, may you go down in flames, no survivors.

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Response to heaven05 (Reply #5)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:15 AM

rsdsharp (548 posts)

12. When I was in radio in the 70s there was a hard and fast rule

All political spots were paid for in advance, before they ran on the air. No money, no runney.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:29 AM

daybranch (390 posts)

6. unfair, unfair.

Republicans are just punishing Akin for trying to invent some plausible justification for their ridiculous position. But the position is their platform position and the position of their candidates nationwide why are they not punishing them for not being able to provide a plausible explanation. Akin is a mainstream republican crazy just like the people they are appealing gto. They cannot wink and hide him and their extremism under the rug.
Reince Preiebus is a backstabbing snake, sort of like Romney and Bain Capital. The republicans really need to turn on the evangelical base but it is very difficult when their candidates resemble the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

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Response to daybranch (Reply #6)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:04 AM

formercia (18,139 posts)

10. Akin broke the 11th Commandment:

Don't get caught.

If the GOP had been able to spin his statements into obscurity, he would still have money. The cockroaches want the light kept off their true platform.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:31 AM

kimbutgar (816 posts)

7. Rove will break down and give him superpac money. They don't want to lose.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:46 AM

jerseyjack (1,361 posts)

8. Cardinal Dolan will send him a donation.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:47 AM

Lone_Star_Dem (27,570 posts)

9. The deadline for him to drop out hasn't expired yet.

They're going to make it as difficult as possible on him until then.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:10 AM

Iliyah (2,343 posts)

11. Where is Huckabee? Where are all the RW so called "Christians"

like Brody??? I know they have zillions to buy these advertisements.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:42 AM

bayareaboy (585 posts)

13. It's too bad that ...

For perhaps 1/4 the money the stations could maybe do some static and thin line at the bottom of the screen with his name. I mean he doesn't have much else going, anyway.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 01:10 PM

cyberswede (11,286 posts)

14. Locking - duplicate

Please see this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014221370

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