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RNC Goes After Obama For Using White House In Campaign Ad Like Everybody Else
Ryan J. Reilly | July 18, 2011, 6:11PM
Presidents have engaged in the perhaps unseemly but legal practice of using the White House as a backdrop for their campaign ads pretty much since campaign ads became a thing. But
now the head of the RNC is calling President Barack Obama's decision to do the same thing an "apparent crime." :eyes:
"As Chairman of the Republican National Committee, I have the responsibility to hold the President accountable for his reckless spending, for the unsustainable growth of government and the crushing debt he is leaving for future generations of Americans, and now, sadly, for his apparent criminal behavior," RNC Chair Reince Priebus wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Priebus writes that it is a "crime for the President of the United States to solicit political contributions in a place of official government business." True enough. But ads filmed in the White House residence are perfectly legal, according to a 1979 opinion by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Since that's where the White House counsel says the ad was filmed, we're square, right?
Not quite, says Priebus. "According to multiple individuals with knowledge of the White House's rooms and layout,
the video appears to have been recorded in the Map Room," he writes. "According to news reports, however, the White House Counsel has indicated that the video was filmed somewhere in the residential portion of the White House."
Only one problem: the Map Room is part of the residence. The White House is pushing back on Priebus' criticism.more...
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