Whitehouse Lawyers Threaten Poster’s Rights

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has posted 14 large size posters in Washington D.C.’s Union Station in order to attract the attention of Congressional Staffers who walk through the station every day.

The message is clear and well presented yet some Whitehouse staff members are concerned that the ad copy references the President’s children.

In an effort to intimidate the PCRM, two Whitehouse lawyers contacted the organization and suggested that not only would the First Family be annoyed over the posters but that the PCRM might end up defending a lawsuit over the posters.

The PCRM has made it clear that it will not remove the posters until the last day of the contracted display period, which is August 31, 2009 and in the interim is certainly willing to fight for its right to display the posters.

The posters went up yesterday and the First Family is out of town so it’s clear that the Whitehouse lawyers are not in fact speaking for the Obama’s who may in fact approve of the posters once they see them.

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