| GOP AG Candidate Fox and MT GOP Chairman Iverson Denounce Dirty Campaigning
(Helena) - Republican candidate for Attorney General Tim Fox today denounced illegal and deceptive campaign techniques being employed by a few Democrat operatives in Montana. He specifically pointed to recent illegal auto-dial messages apparently paid for by a Democrat-affiliated group.
On Saturday, May 31, the Tim Fox campaign began fielding calls from supporters who had received recorded auto-dial messages that criticized Fox and urged voters to support Lee Bruner in the June 3rd Republican Primary Election. The auto-dials also contained the disclaimer language "Paid for by Citizens for Strong Law Enforcement." There is no record of such a group existing in Montana. The Bruner campaign also received calls from Montanans who decried the use of these false and illegal recorded phone calls.
"This is politics at its worst," said Fox. "This is the kind of mudslinging that has so many Americans turned off of the political process. I can tell you plainly that I will not participate in this kind of illegal and negative behavior during the General Election."
Montana campaign finance laws require any organization making expenditures in a political race to file campaign finance disclosure reports. Recorded auto-dial calls of this type are illegal under Montana law.
"Lee Bruner didn't have anything to do with this and obviously neither did Tim Fox. Which means its probably a group working to elect Democrats in Montana; and that's very disappointing," said Montana Republican Party Chairman Erik Iverson. |
