Anti-Doyle ads pulled

UPDATE: Reality check by WISC-TV News in Madison finds the commercial misleading. Report.

A negative television commercial attacking Gov. Jim Doyle has been pulled by its sponsor, the Coalition for American Families, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin said late Wednessday afternoon.

The commercial falsely claimed that Doyle wanted to raise hunting and fishing fees to pay for health benefits for domestic partners and lower tuition for illegal immigrants.

The Democratic Party wrote TV stations in Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay on Wednesday asking them to stop running the commercial because it was false. At 3:15 p.m., the party said, the Coalition told the stations to stop airing them. The ad just started to run on Monday and was to run at least until the end of next week.

“The Coalition for American Families got caught using blatantly false information in their ads,” said Kim Warkentin, Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. “We hope that this sends a message to these shadowy, anonymous groups that this kind of dirty politics will not be tolerated in Wisconsin.”

An earlier post on the ads.