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Friday, November 4, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Monopolies are illegal, even in Republican tactics
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
A Republican campaign tactic designed to monopolize voters' attention recently has angered both political parties.
The College Republican National Committee, parodying a game piece from the Parker Brothers' Monopoly game. (Courtesy Dukakis, prison [urlough program]
The "Get Out of Jail Free" card features a man with wings and a cane flying out of a cage. It also has the license registered trademark, a circled "R."
On the front, the card reads, "Get out of jail, free... compliments of Michael Dukakis." On the back was an attack on Dukakis' prison furlough program, with reference to Willie Horton. The card said Horton was a convict murderer who had been beaten and beaten her finance while on furlough.
The problem started with a letter
from the Dukakis/Bentsen campaign to all Democratic campus coordinators, including the Jayhawks for Dukakis. Included was a letter from the College Republican National Committee to Parker Brothers.
Committee 104 The Dukakis/Bentsen letter said Parker Brothers had threatened the committee with a lawsuit because of its illegal and fraudulent activities in distributing copyrighted material on campuses. The Dukakis/Bentsen letter also said that Parker Brothers had allowed the Democratic campaign to use the letter publicly.
patag to use the server paragraphe
The committee's letter to Parker
Brothers, dated Sept. 28, was written by Stockton Reeves, chairman of the committee.
committee.
In the letter, Reeves said "... We are not interested in contesting this matter with your company. There fore, as of this date, we have discontinued distribution of these cards."
Eric Levitt, co-coordinator of the Jayhawks, gave the letters to the Kansan. Levitt said he thought the use of the card went deeper than just a campaign tactic.
a campaign officer.
"My question is, if the Bush campain is going to ignore the law while campaigning, what are they going to do in office, if they win the election?"
Levitt asked.
Douglas Johnston, KU Democrat's president, was angry and vowed action.
"The card itself was a distortion of Michael Dukakis' record," Johnston said. "They were misusing copyrighted material for their own selfish purposes."
Johnston said he would speak to the legal counsel at Dukakis' headquarters about the possibility of further action.
He said the KU College Republicans were still standing out the cards yesterday at the Kansas Union.
Brett Frazier, chairman of the College Republicans, said the cards probably were handed out yesterday to get rid of extras and probably to be made available today. He said earlier he thought the whole issue was no big deal.
Although delighted with the success of the campaign device, Reeves was angered over use of the committee's letter, which he said sounded like the one he wrote.
"I consider my correspondence with another group private," he said from his headquarters in Washington, D.C. "The Democrats are claiming the Republicans have run a sneaky campaign. This just shows there is no copyright on sneaky
campaign tactics."
The one party that did not seem concerned over the issue was Parker Brothers in Beverly, Mass. Judy A. Willis, vice president, law, said there had been no threat of a lawsuit. She called the use of any copyright technically illegal but didn't know about calling it fraudulent.
"We wouldn't sue someone immediately," she said. "We put them on notice with a polite letter because they might not have been aware of the problem. We don't want Parker Brothers to be seen as endorsing a candidate."
Willis said there was no point in a lawsuit so close to an election because use of the cards would stop soon. She said she had no problems with Democrats using the committee's letter for campaign purposes but did not remember a request to use it.
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Johnson said although he was athletic director at the time, he could not be held responsible for the actions of every person working in the athletic department.
He used the same analogy when asked whether Brown should be responsible for those who worked under him.
"If you're the president of a bank," he said, "and somebody under you embezzles money, does that make him a disresponsible) responsibility for the action?"
Johnson said the NCAA allegations had no bearing on his decision to leave his position as athletic director.
Johnson said the NCAA's penalty was too severe considering the rules that were broken.
"If there is a better system (to determine penalties) we've got to find it," he said. "The NCAA has an impossible job. They're too poorly staffed to deal with the problems in college athletics. They've got too few people to deal with too many problems."
"I left with the feeling that I had done as much for the program as I could possibly do," Johnson said. "If I'd had total confidence of the people around me, I probably would not have left."
Johnson refused to comment on the people he was referring to.
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