On the Campaign Trail with Ed Tibbetts

The Democrats’ complaint that 2nd District congressional candidate Peter Teahen broke federal election law by airing a TV ad for his funeral home is familiar.

Two years ago, 1st District Republican Mike Whalen was the target of a similar complaint. The complaint, by Republican rival Brian Kennedy, was that TV ads for The Iowa Machine Shed constituted illegal corporate contributions to Whalen’s campaign. The case was dismissed by the FEC as unfounded. Teahen denies any wrongdoing here, too.

What’s interesting locally is that Davenport’s Victory Enterprises, Inc., was the campaign consultant in both cases. That will surely get some insider tongues wagging.

Brian Dumas, who’s consulting for Teahen, said today that Victory wasn’t involved in the funeral home ad.

“Peter and I have never once discussed the advertising he does for his funeral home,” Dumas said.

He adds Victory, of which he’s president, hasn’t had anything to do with adverising for the Cedar Rapids funeral home, either.

The complaint was filed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. You can find the Associated Press story on the Times web site here.

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