Weekend’s Wall of (dis)Honor

These five candidates aired multiple uncaptioned ads over the past few days:

Michele Bachmann
Tarryl Clark
Mark Dayton
Tom Emmer
Erik Paulsen

Technically, of these five candidates, only Emmer is in violation of the state law requiring captioned ads. Candidates for Federal office (Bachmann, Clark, and Paulsen) are not bound by the law. Dayton, because he does not receive public financing, is also not bound.

Bachmann just reported $10M in donations, and yet she apparently can’t afford captioning. The others don’t have as much cash, but they are still missing out on an opportunity to get their message to a significant audience.