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Interest Groups Running Ads in Obama Era

WASHINGTON — A pilots group on Monday launched an advertising campaign designed to shoot down an Obama administration proposal to levy new user fees on planes, part of a surge in spending on issue ads by lobbying organizations.

The new $1.5 million ad blitz by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, a Washington-based group whose 416,000 members fly everything from turboprops to hot-air balloons, takes aim at a forthcoming White House plan that would place more than $7 billion in new user fees on aircraft that use airspace managed by federal air-traffic controllers. Read the rest of this entry »

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