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Wednesday, March 3, 2010   

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - The League of American Voters appeared in Washington last fall with $1.7 million and close ties to political operative Dick Morris. Now, the group is running ads in West Virginia, attacking health care reform. Its executive director, Bob Adams, defends the ads, despite four places in which they were found to be false by the organization www.FactCheck.org.

Adams calls the Web site biased; he insists the League is a grassroots organization, although he admits they have never actually had a meeting.

"We don't officially meet in a room, per se. We communicate often, by email."

A previous ad by the group was denied airtime on two national television networks; Adams also cites bias as the reason. The League of Women Voters has accused Adams's group of deception, by using a similar name in order to cause confusion. However, Adams says his group has refused requests to change its name; he sees no reason the League of American Voters should be confused with the League of Women Voters.

"Not at all. There are numerous groups that have the name 'league' within their names. There's a league of bicyclists, there are numerous groups that have used 'league' in their name."

Adams says the League of American Voters shares a physical address with several other conservative organizations in Washington, D.C. Although his group does not list a telephone number on its Web site, he was reached at the number for a separate organization, Americans for Tax Reform. Adams insists they are not connected.

"They likely transferred you from their main switchboard to my office. There is no affiliation in any, way, shape or form. I have a lease agreement with them, and that is it."

Adams, a former staff member for an Oklahoma Republican Congressman, has twice lost two campaigns for public office in West Virginia. The group's current ad initially misspelled the first name of Congressman Alan Mollohan, which several critics have cited as evidence of the group's lack of knowledge about the state.



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