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"    The Idaho Statesman is reporting that Republican Congressional candidate Vaughn Ward violated Department of Defense rules with an ad placed on the Drudge Report site a few weeks ago. Indeed. So did Gary Berntsen and Michael Grimm earlier this year \u2014 see the images, left. (These gents are running for New York&amp;#039;s 1st and 13th Congressional District seats, respectively.) In fact, from a project already I was already working on when this story broke, it seems a lot of would-be politicians who&amp;#039;ve spent time in the military are breaking the 2008 DoD rule (see section 4.3.2.1 here) that makes it illegal for any veteran to &amp;quot;use or allow the use of photographs, drawings, and other similar media formats of themselves in uniform as the primary graphic representation in any campaign media, such as a billboard, brochure, flyer, Web site, or television commercial.&amp;quot; (There&amp;#039;s also a secondary rule (4.3.1.2, same document) that requires incidental use to be accompanied by a disclaimer stating that the image does not imply DoD endorsement.) Well, hell. It&amp;#039;s a bit faster and sloppier than I&amp;#039;d have liked to do it, and I don&amp;#039;t claim it&amp;#039;s exhaustive, but here are the candidates for federal office I&amp;#039;ve found who are in clear violation of one or both of these commands. (There are several others who make infractions so minor I expect the DoD would decline to take action, and sensibly so.) Anthony Woods (D-CA) (See pictures 3 and 6) Katherine Jenerette (R-SC) Lou Huddleston (R-NC) (If deliberately blurring the nametag on a uniform means it&amp;#039;s not legally &amp;quot;yours&amp;quot; \u2014 see picture 5) Gary Berntsen (R-NY) Michael Grimm (R-NY) Diggs Brown (R-CO) (Picture 2) Wayne Harmon (R-IN) John Loughlin (R-RI) Jack Smith (R-OH) Nick Popaditch (R-CA) Scott Taylor (R-VA) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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