David Fiske, a spokesman for the commission, said that the request would be studied but that the commission had the authority to sanction only stations that knowingly broadcast an illegal advertisement, not the political strategists who produced it.
"If a clerk at 7-Eleven can be fined for selling alcohol to someone who does not have a proper ID, certainly a multibillion-dollar corporation can be fined for facilitating and profiting from an illegal advertisement," Bonin said in a statement Tuesday.
Saying that New Yorkers are being subjected to a visual assault by hundreds of oversized, excessively lit or illegal outdoor advertisements, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that his administration was supporting stricter sign regulations and much tougher penalties for anyone who ignored them.
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Once the illegal television advertisements began to air in late September, Tim Barry, then serving as communications director for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, sent Frye and Palin a lengthy email entitled "RGA," in which he advised that Palin not engage media queries about the ad: "I strongly urge you to respond NOT by having the candidate address the issue.
It was going to be destroyed as an "illegal roadside advertisement", but after long negotiations with the Texas Department of Transportation it was saved and is now classified as a museum.
The intense interest in Playboy Marfa, which the transportation department deemed in July an illegal outdoor advertisement because of its use of the trademarked Playboy bunny logo without a permit, now has some people, including the department, wondering whether the same logic could be extended to the Prada work.
The second Mayors Against Illegal Guns advertisement featured Arkansan Angela Bradford-Barnes, whose friend was killed by gun violence, saying that Pryor "let us down" by voting against the background check bill.
Much of the business comes from word of mouth and foot traffic, because smoking-related products are considered inappropriate and illegal for advertisement on social media (though they're allowed to have accounts on the platforms, which they do).
