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And he's filed an FEC complaint concerning the ad to boot. Drew Cline has the scoop, and in it is Binnie's letter to Ayotte campaign manager Brooks Kochvar, in part:
As you know, Kevin Smith and Kelly Ayotte were previously colleagues in New Hampshire state government. As you also know, Mr. Smith is the Executive Director of Cornerstone Action and presumably directs and controls the organization's activities, including the content of the organization's advertising. That Mr. Smith is controlling and directing an advertising effort benefitting the Ayotte Campaign is very troubling given the long and established working relationship between Mr. Smith and Kelly Ayotte.
The Binnie Campaign further has reason to believe that a former Ayotte Campaign employee, Harold Parker, filmed some of the footage that appears in Cornerstone Action's advertisement that is benefitting the Ayotte Campaign. If anyone associated with the Ayotte Campaign supplied Cornerstone Action with any footage that is included in the advertisement - or was materially involved in the development, production, or placement of the advertisement in any way - that is yet another ground for concluding that unlawful coordination took place under FEC regulations. Moreover, the Binnie Campaign believes it is highly likely that Ayotte Campaign contributors have donated to Cornerstone Action and have helped finance the advertisement at issue.
It makes perfect sense to me that Team Ayotte and Cornerstone would be in cahoots. It's really too late at this point for Ovide to matter, so the only thing standing in the way of an anti-marriage, anti-choice Ayotte nomination is Bill Binnie.
