It states: "Despite numerous attempts by student volunteers to save the publication through external advertising, proposals were turned down on the grounds that it poses a threat to the union's own services".
Brian Baker, president and general counsel of a super PAC called the Ending Spending Action Fund, said Mr. Ricketts had studied several advertising proposals in recent months and had not signed off on a specific approach to taking on Mr. Obama.
And it's the strain of thought responsible for the Wright-themed advertising proposal that the New York Times exposed Thursday morning.
But in an interview on Wednesday evening, Mr. Baker did not reject the contents of the advertising proposal.
The advertising proposal, however, is novel, and has already drawn criticism from drug manufacturers and the advertising industry.
But on Wednesday, when Mr. Baker was asked in an interview whether Mr. Ricketts had rejected the advertising proposal, he said only that no decisions had been made.
One person knowledgeable about the case said that other Torricelli campaign officials were aware of the advertising proposal, and that it could figure in a conspiracy indictment even if it did not go forward.
The Times' bombshell story, accompanied by the full advertising proposal online, got significant media pick-up and drew an immediate rebuke from Obama campaign manager Jim Messina.
I read Harris as also presenting a truth in advertising proposal that could help break our cycle of teacher-bashing, which creates more failure, and which prompts more scapegoating of teachers.
Obama's team decided to leak the $10 million advertising proposal to the press, a move that would not only not only expose Ricketts' plan but also "send a message to conservative mega-donors and Republican operatives that if they crossed the line when it came to race, the would be a price to pay".
The Commission based the tobacco advertising proposal on article 100a, arguing that its aim was to ensure the free movement of newspapers, magazines and other publications that was hindered by differences in national regulatory regimes.
