“Ads and 30-Minute Special Will Promote Gingrich”

Very interesting item in NYT’s “The Caucus:” “Newsmax, the conservative magazine and Web site, will show a 30-minute special on Mr. Gingrich throughout the weekend in all of Iowa’s major television markets….A second major player in conservative circles, Liberty University, the evangelical institution founded by Jerry Falwell, is also giving Mr. Gingrich some help in Iowa, running 30-second commercials in which Mr. Gingrich extols the virtues of a Liberty education….Election law experts said the more problematic issues were with Liberty University’s ad, which could be jeopardizing its tax-exempt status. ‘It would be hard to think of a circumstance in which it could run and ad featuring a federal candidate in the middle of a primary or a caucus without raising serious tax-exempt questions,’ said Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission. ‘I hope they have good tax lawyers.'”

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