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- <text id=91TT1807>
- <title>
- Aug. 12, 1991: We Didn't Know What We Were Doing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 12, 1991 Busybodies & Crybabies
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 11
- Gee, We Didn't Know What We Were Doing
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
- </p>
- <p> 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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- </body></article>
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