Congressman Steve Driehaus (D, Ohio) has withdrawn a complaint he filed in October with the Ohio Elections Commission that challenged the truthfulness of a Susan B. Anthony List ad, which claimed Driehaus voted for taxpayer-funded abortion in the health care bill. (Fact: Obamacare does fund elective abortion coverage.) Driehaus’s complaint scared a billboard company into not running the ad, thereby constraining the SBA List’s free speech. The ACLU weighed in on the SBA List’s behalf.
No word yet on Driehaus’s stated motive for withdrawing the complaint, but here’s a statement from the Susan B. Anthony List’s Marjorie Dannenfelser:
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