CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS
Dec. 13, 2007 – 5:13 p.m.
Anti-Hillary Film an FEC Issue
By Alex Knott, CQ Staff
As Hillary Rodham Clinton is engaged in a tough fight in the primary states, a conservative group plans to join the fray. Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit headed by the chief investigator of the Whitewater hearings, David N. Bossie, will release a new documentary called “Hillary: The Movie,” which professes to be the last word in past and present Clinton scandals.
“Hillary: The Movie” uses more than 40 interviews with opinion makers and those who “personally locked horns with the Clintons” to tell a story of “what the Clintons want America to forget,” according to a press release from the group.
Citizens United is now concerned about whether it can run TV ads to plug the movie without running into problems with campaign finance laws. The group has already hired James Bopp Jr, to represent them in a suit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC). He argues that Citizens United should be able to run ads for the movie without disclosing the film’s financiers or including a disclaimer about who produced the ad. Bopp won a similar case in June before the Supreme Court.
“If you take excerpts of the movie and put them on TV, you are subject to reports and disclaimers,” said Bopp on steps of the U.S. District Court where he filed the lawsuit today. “I have a client that has been working hard for months to produce a movie ... and they want be able to sell the movie.”
After repeated phone calls to the Clinton campaign’s press office, an employee said that the messages had been passed along to other campaign officials. “We will call back if we want to comment,” she said.
The group has produced several similar films in recent years, including “Celsius 41.11,” which was a conservative response to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11.”




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