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A Washington State newspaper is demanding a Republican Senate candidate comply with a seemingly new rule that has never applied to Democrats, which the campaign says is a political ploy.
The Seattle Times told Republican Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley in September she had to cut their masthead out of her campaign ads, saying it "left the mistaken impression the Times had endorsed her campaign." But the ad only featured headlines from the paper, something almost every campaign ad does to highlight relevant issues for voters.
Lawyers for the Smiley campaign said in an FEC complaint they filed last week against the Times that confusion over "an inferred endorsement" was unlikely, given the Times’s endorsement of her Democratic opponent, Sen. Patty Murray (D., Ore.), who used a Timesheadline as recently as 2016 for an ad. The Times endorsed Murray in her last four elections.
The Times‘s objection seems to be based on a new standard. Rep. Kim Schrier (D., Wash.) used one of the paper’s headlines in an ad during her 2018 run for Congress. When asked whether Schrier’s ad created the same mistaken impression about an endorsement, a senior vice president at the Seattle Times told the Washington Free Beacon, "We’ll decline further comment on this."
Well, Seattle, what do you expect, but for faux-patriosm and cheap exploitation of heroes, take it away, Seattle Seahawks:
In September, the Seattle Seahawks complained that Smiley’s husband, a disabled Army veteran, wore a team jersey in another ad. The team gave him that jersey at a game honoring military service members in 2014. Major Scott Smiley was blinded by shrapnel from a car bomb detonation during a 2005 tour in Iraq.
The link to the Seattle Seahawk’s own promotional ad for this “heartfelt” event with West Point graduate, Seattle native Major Smiley is still up on the team’s site because the Seahawks just love our soldiers and are dedicated to the defense of liberty. Or something; at least I now have a team to root against on otherwise boring Sundays.
The United States Army's first blind active duty military officer, Major Scott Smiley, speaks with Seahawks Insider Tony Ventrella about raising the 12 Flag during the Seahawks Salute to Service game against the Giants.
