[grc] Advice needed on election issue

[Michelle Bradley]

I have always understood the equal time rules to mean that the other 
side is given an equal ~opportunity~.  If they refuse that opportunity, 
then it could go on but I would disclose that the other side "declined" 
to appear.


=m



On 5/16/2016 7:45 PM, Paul Bame via grc wrote:
> Not sure the equal time rules even apply to non-candidate things
> on the ballot
>
> On 2016-05-16 19:42, Maria Gilardin via grc wrote:
>> Who knows the equal time rules on election issues??
>> Someone at our local community station told the organizers of our
>> local Measure V that they can't be on the air since the opponent, the
>> Mendocino Redwood Company, refuses to come on.
>>
>> In my memory all that is needed is an announcement that they refused
>> plus a promise that they can have equal time in the future.
>> Maria
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