(I’m feeling lazy today so this will be short.)
“The official campaign period hasn’t started yet so there’s no violation.”
That in a nutshell is how those personalities with running political-advertisements-disguised-as-public-service-ads defend their early campaigning. While, technically correct it’s just a flimsy excuse as far as I’m concerned.
The funny thing is when it comes to their failure to give the public even just a sneak peek of their platforms these same personalities — or to be more accurate their supporters — would say something like this:
“We can’t come out with our platform at this time. We don’t want to violate the rule on early campaigning.”
As the comedian Joey de Leon would say, “Acheche!!!”
It’s the Pilisopo Technique. With laws that have no teeth, this technique works every time.
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