A federal judge has allowed a defamation lawsuit by former Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH) to move forward, on the grounds that an anti-abortion group’s ad campaign erroneously attacked him for supporting taxpayer-funded abortion with his vote for health care reform.During the 2010 elections, the anti-abortion group the Susan B. Anthony List planned to run a billboard in Ohio targeting pro-life Dem Rep. Driehaus, who at the time was in the middle of an ultimately unsuccessful re-election campaign. “Shame on Steve Driehaus!” the billboard said. “Driehaus voted FOR taxpayer-funded abortion.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=108729