UPDATE: The ad is back up, Lynn Bartels reports, after the required disclaimer was added.
Peak 1, Shaffer 0.
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Congressional candidate Brandon Shaffer has been caught violating a Department of Defense legal directive…again.
In a new ad today slamming his opponent, Congressman Cory Gardner, over Gardner's fundraising, Shaffer uses a picture of himself in his Navy uniform, intending to sell himself as the more honest and ethical candidate.
Unfortunately for Shaffer's campaign, the ad violates a DoD directive that requires a disclaimer that photos of a candidate in military uniform do not imply the endorsement of the armed forces.
We pointed that out on Twitter:
@apkristenwyatt The @shaffer4co ad violates the DOD directive about implying military endorsement. Needs legal disclaimer. #COpolitics
— Colo Peak Politics (@COpeakpolitics) September 5, 2012
And now the ad is down.
Maybe Shaffer could learn from Congressman Mike Coffman whose new ad includes the disclaimer.
BRANDON SHAFFER FOR CONGRESS? THERE ARE ALREADY TOO MANY “BRANDON SHAFFERS” THERE.
Brandon Shaffer was prime sponsor of a bill that a group of elderly Coloradans claims is a breach their contracts with the State of Colorado… illegally taking money from them that they are owed for their work.
Our economy, our businesses, our farms, our nation itself rests on the sanctity of contracts.
A quotation:
“There is no moral exemption for any man or body of men that breaks contracts. Nor is there any hope of public or private respect for a contract breaker. A contract breaker is an utter misfit as a citizen or a business man.”.
—Franklin MacVeagh, former President of the Commercial Club of Chicago and U.S. Secretary of Treasury.
The issue of breach of contract goes beyond party politics. This issue is about morality, judgment, abuse of power, and playing fast and loose with the law.
In the United States “honor” means something. If we lack “honor,” we have nothing.
We need people in Congress who have integrity.
How low must one be to breach a contract? Lower than a snake.
If Brandon Shaffer’s opponent was a snake… I’d take the snake.