Ohio Revised Code on political communications

[Dan Alaimo]

Don't throw out those copies of the "Lakewood Neighborhood News" just yet. They may be evidence.

Excerpted from:
Ohio Revised Code » Title [35] XXXV ELECTIONS » Chapter 3517: CAMPAIGNS; POLITICAL PARTIES
full text:
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3517.20

3517.20 Political communications; identification of source.
(A) As used in this section:

(1) "Political publication for or against a candidate" means a notice, placard, advertisement, sample ballot, brochure, flyer, direct mailer, or other form of general publication that is designed to promote the nomination, election, or defeat of a candidate.

(2) "Political publication for or against an issue" means a notice, placard, advertisement, sample ballot, brochure, flyer, direct mailer, or other form of general publication that is designed to promote the adoption or defeat of a ballot issue or question or to influence the voters in an election.

(3) "Public political advertising" means newspapers, magazines, outdoor advertising facilities, direct mailings, or other similar types of general public political advertising, or flyers, handbills, or other nonperiodical printed matter.
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(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of this section, no entity shall do any of the following unless the name of the entity appears in a conspicuous place on or is contained or included within the publication, communication, or telephone call:

(a) Issue a form of political publication in support of or opposition to a candidate or a ballot issue or question;

(b) Make an expenditure for the purpose of financing political communications in support of or opposition to a candidate or a ballot issue or question through public political advertising;

(c) Utter or cause to be uttered, over the broadcasting facilities of any radio or television station within this state, any communication in support of or opposition to a candidate or a ballot issue or question or any communication that is designed to influence the voters in an election;

(d) Conduct a telephone bank for the purpose of supporting or opposing a candidate or a ballot issue or question or for the purpose of influencing the voters in an election.

[Bridget Conant]

That phony "newspaper" was paid for by Edward Fitzgerald. He also has the domain name and it's clearly HIS.

Those election laws mean nothing to Ed Fitzgerald - he thinks laws don't apply to HIM.

[Jim O'Bryan]

That phony "newspaper" was paid for by Edward Fitzgerald. He also has the domain name and it's clearly HIS.

Those election laws mean nothing to Ed Fitzgerald - he thinks laws don't apply to HIM.

and we are now finding out his understudy Mayor Summers feels the same way.



Making a laughing stock of Lakewood.

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