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America's Renewable Future
"Hypocrite"
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0:60 ad run in Iowa from Dec. 1, 2015.
Radio |
[Music]
Male Announcer: Ethanol
and
renewable
fuels
are
good
for the country and keep Iowa working.
Ethanol creates markets for farmers, strengthens rural communities and employs 73,000 Iowans.
Politicians like Ted Cruz support subsidies for Big Oil, but want to end support for ethanol.
Cruz backs policies that threaten rural Iowa and thousands of jobs.
Why is Cruz against ethanol?
Well… there are millions of reasons.
Cruz has personal investments of up to $700,000 in oil, and the Super PACs propping up his campaign have received over $25 million from oil interests.
Politicians like Ted Cruz are the worst kind.
Hypocrites.
He says he’s a conservative but doesn’t want to do anything to stop the nearly $5 billion in subsidies received by the oil industry.
There are millions of reasons Ted Cruz supports Big Oil instead of Iowa farmers.
Call politician Ted Cruz - tell him to stop being a hypocrite and support Iowa jobs.
Paid for by America’s Renewable Future.
Notes: The Cruz
campaign responded with a letter to station managers urging them to
immediately pull the "false and misleading" advertisement:
Cruz
for
President
Campaign
Asks
Radio Stations to Pull False Attack Ads
Running in Iowa
HOUSTON,
Texas
– The Cruz for President Campaign today sent a letter to Iowa radio
stations requesting they stop running a false ad placed by
America’s
Renewable Future, a lobbyist group that wants to keep taxpayer
subsidies going to the ethanol industry.
The ad falsely claims, “Politicians like Ted Cruz support subsidies for
Big Oil, but want to end support for ethanol.”
“It is blatantly false to suggest that Sen. Cruz wants to end the
Renewable Fuel Standard while maintaining subsidies for oil,” Cruz
spokesman Rick Tyler said. “Cruz has repeatedly stated that he would
end all energy specific subsidies, both ethanol and oil among others.”
Earlier this year in a speech delivered at Heritage Action in
Washington, D.C., Cruz said, “Big government energy mandates don't stop
with ethanol. There are tax credits for almost every form of energy.
Each designed to give one industry a leg up over the other.”
He went on to say that we should level the playing field, end the
special interest handouts, and stop the energy cronyism. He supported
the Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act, sponsored by Utah Sen.
Mike Lee and Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, which would eliminate all
technology-specific energy tax credits.
Tyler continued, “While Cruz stands consistently in support of the free
market, Sen. Rubio champions corporate giveaways like the RFS and sugar
subsidies that pick winners and losers in order to enrich lobbyists at
the expense of the American taxpayers.”
The text of the letter to the radio stations is below and may be viewed
here:
December 1, 2015
Dear Station Manager:
On behalf of Cruz for President, I write this letter to inform you
that, based upon available information, America’s Renewable Future,
Inc. has purchased media time to publicly disseminate a false and
misleading advertisement regarding Senator Ted Cruz.
The ad falsely claims, “Politicians like Ted Cruz support subsidies for
Big Oil, but want to end support for ethanol.”
To the contrary, Ted Cruz has repeatedly stated that he would end
energy subsidies for both ethanol and oil among other energy subsidies.
He specifically supports the Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity
Act, sponsored by Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, which
would do just that.
Because this advertisement makes a flatly false factual claim for which
your station is ultimately responsible, we urge you to exercise your
discretion as a licensee to refuse to continue to broadcast this
advertisement, and, because it is already airing, immediately pull the
advertisement from your rotation.
As an FCC licensee you have the legal responsibility to exercise
independent editorial judgment and discretion to oversee and protect
the marketplace of ideas, but also to avoid deliberate
misrepresentations and intentional libel. Political
Programming Policies,
7 FCC Rcd 678, 685 n.54 (1991)(“licensees are not required to accept
any political material that is not authorized by
candidates”). Such
obligations must be taken seriously because courts command broadcasters
to “protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive
advertising.” Licensee Responsibility with Respect to the
Broadcast of False, Misleading or Deceptive Advertising,
74 FCC 2d 623 (1961). Your failure, as an FCC licensee, to
fulfill
this obligation, may be deemed an “underlying abdication” of your
duties as such a licensee and result in the loss of your station’s
license. Cosmopolitan Broadcasting Corp. v. FCC, 581
F.2d
917, 927 (D.C. Cir. 1978). With this letter, Cruz for President
reserves all rights, remedies and recourse to which we are entitled in
connection with the potential or actual broadcast of the advertisement
referenced herein, and that no action or inaction by Cruz for President
shall be deemed to constitute a waiver, relinquishment or other
impairment of such rights, remedies or recourse.
Thank you for your consideration and please do not hesitate to contact
me if you have questions.
Sincerely,
Eric S. Brown
General Counsel
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