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Knox to pay fines over ads in 2007 mayoral race

Gubernatorial hopeful Tom Knox is paying a fine over radio ads from his 2007 Philadelphia mayoral campaign that violated city campaign finance laws, The Inquirer reports.

In advertisements attacking then-candidate Michael Nutter, the Knox campaign sought to paint him as an enemy to community churches. But the ads purported to have been paid by an organization that didn’t exist, an investigation by the city’s Board of Ethics revealed they were produced and bankrolled by the Knox campaign. The campaign is paying fines and half the cost of the investigation. Even after the settlement, the board’s executive said the campaign was “trying to hide their responsibility for creating and funding this attack radio ad.”

Read The Inquirer’s full report here.

September 17, 2009 at 10:25 am

--Dan Hirschhorn

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