Toledo Blade: Lake Erie Bill of Rights group takes aim at ‘attack ads’

This article by Tom Henry appeared in The Toledo Blade, February 18th, 2019.

Toledoans for Safe Water said at a news conference Monday that its proposed Lake Erie Bill of Rights is being smeared on radio advertisements by a Columbus-based firm with deep pockets.

Markie Miller, Toledoans for Safe Water organizer, said Strategic Public Partners Group is “putting fear into the public” with 11th-hour falsehoods leading up to Toledo’s Feb. 26 special election. She said it is doing so under the name of a group called “Toledo Jobs and Growth Coalition,” which she and others contend was created as a front to attack their proposed amendment to Toledo’s city charter.

The firm has represented major pharmaceutical companies, the American Chemistry Council, Coca Cola Corp, FedEx, Bank of America, Ford Motor Co., the National Football League, and others, according to a joint statement by her group and Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. MORE…