Vermont's attorney general and the Republican Governors Association are suing one another.
In lawsuits filed Monday, Attorney General William Sorrell is accusing the RGA of campaign finance law violations, while the RGA is calling Vermont's attorney general a partisan Democrat trying to muzzle its free speech.
At issue is the RGA's sponsorship of ads that have aired in Vermont promoting GOP gubernatorial nominee Brian Dubie, which Sorrell says makes the RGA a de facto political action committee subject to Vermont's campaign finance laws.
The RGA says the ads are "advocacy communication" not aired to elect or defeat any one candidate, that it shouldn't have to meet the reporting requirements of political action committees and that Sorrell's attempts to force that are the equivalent of restricting the group's First Amendment free speech rights.
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