Published - Sunday, November 02, 2008

Judge tells political group to stop its ads



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BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. (AP) ? A judge issued a rare order citing an obscure law Saturday, advising a political group to stop running radio ads against a candidate for state Assembly in west-central Wisconsin.

Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Lister said Middleton-based Coalition for America’s Families must stop running ads that make false representations about Mark Radcliffe, a Democratic candidate for the 92nd Assembly District.
The ad said Radcliffe supports a health care plan that would double Wisconsin’s taxes to give benefits to out of state residents and illegal aliens.

The ads say the $15 billion plan would make Wisconsin the highest taxed state in the country.

Radcliffe ? who is up against Republican Dan Hellman, of Onalaska, for an open seat ? filed the restraining order request Friday.

The Coalition for America’s Families’ spokesman R.J. Johnson said its ads are truthful and is “100 percent substantiated in the public record.â€