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- GRAPEVINE, Page 11GEE, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- Some of the nation's leading officeholders are alleging
- that they've been ripped off by the television industry. An
- Atlanta lawyer is leading the legal charge against local
- stations in several cities, citing complaints by 49 politicians
- from 11 states about the $95 million they spent on campaign
- commercials from 1986 to 1990. Democrats and Republicans alike
- claim that local outlets regularly overcharged them for "fixed
- spots," needlessly reserving specific time periods for their
- commercials when cheaper "pre-emptible" slots were available.
- Governors Ann Richards of Texas, Lawton Chiles of Florida and
- Pete Wilson of California have joined the action, with
- candidates naming business inexperience as one reason they were
- fleeced. But what does that say about their ability to balance
- state budgets?
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