The gas-pump scene in the $15,000 film Luttmann funded broadcasts his biggest challenge and marketing opportunity in selling his cachaça (pronounced ka-SHA-sa) as an elegant tipple.
The factual record demonstrates that the abuse of the present law not only permits corporations and labor unions to fund broadcast advertisements designed to influence federal elections, but permits them to do so while concealing their identities from the public.
The bill directs the FCC to revise its rules to force groups that fund broadcasts dealing with politics or other controversial issues of "public importance" to disclose the names of "significant donors".
Most paid for their own flight tickets and accommodation, but some of the Chinese contingent were funded by broadcast journalists who travelled with them.
Why can't the parent organization determine the best in American arts and fund its broadcast across the nation?
(I know it was funded and first broadcast in the UK, but the actors, writers and sense of humour are Irish).
However, given that advisors include a creator of TV show Big Brother, and the project will be funded through selling broadcast rights of the endeavour, sceptics suggest that people who are entertaining on TV are more likely to be selected.
In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that statutes protecting the ability of individual contributors to fund political broadcasts legally extended to corporations, because campaign finance laws could not deny free speech rights based on the type of entity claiming such rights.
In CPJ's annual look at attacks on the press, the organization noted that Israeli authorities raided Wattan TV, a US-funded broadcast outlet; the Palestinian Authority cracked down on websites critical of President Mahmoud Abbas; and journalists in Hamas-controlled Gaza have faced assaults and threats for their work.
After securing the top slot on the Ukip list of candidates in the East Midlands by "acclamation", Kilroy-Silk is now the party's main face on posters and in election broadcasts, funded by a £2m war chest.
