Weekend ads pop on oil drilling, cigarette tax bills
by Michael C. Bender | April 26th, 2009With the clock running on the legislative session, a pair of television ads popped up on airwaves around the Capitol this weekend.
The first, from Florida Energy Solutions Coalition (which is the Florida Petroleum Council and Associated Industries of Florida) cites the state’s 9.7 percent unemployment rate as a reason lawmakers should open more of the state’s waters for drilling. Watch the sspot here.
The second is from Floridians for Tax Fairness, which shares a Miami mailing address with the Dosal Tobacco Corp.
Couldn’t find a copy of the ad on the internet, but it essentially paints the Dosal company as a family business that might be crushed by a tax-hungry legislature. Dosal was not included in the state’s tobacco settlement, but companies that were have asked lawmakers to consider additional fees for Dosal.
Tags: cigarette taxes, offshore drilling
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April 27th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
You can find a copy of the ad online at:
http://vodpod.com/watch/1553440-sponsored-video-stop-the-dosal-tax
And you can read more about it at:
http://themediablog.blogspot.com/2009/04/honesty-is-such-lonely-word.html
April 28th, 2009 at 5:42 am
Oh, this is interesting.