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Bernardo de La Paz

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6. Another factor: Campaign finance laws

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 12:07 PM

Mar 2025

Parties can place ads freely between elections, but during the 5 to 8 weeks that an election is declared till election day there are strict limits on spending to keep things more equal and a bit more focused.

The Conservative Party has a big warchest right now. The conners would have used any extra time to define Carney. In what little time there has been, they have been hammering him with ads that try to smear him with as corrupt.

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