Barr off-base, or just confused, about Ogilvy and government.(Rep. Bob Barr's statements not correct or simply confused)(Brief Article)

Advertising Age, August, 2002 by Crain, Rance

It gets curious-er and curious-er.

I'm talking about the bizarre statement by Rep. Bob Barr, R., Ga., at a House of Representatives hearing the other week in which he implied the Democratic National Committee had an operative, a guy named Alan Levitt, within the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. (I stated erroneously in my Aug. 12 column that the person worked for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.)

Mr. Levitt, campaign director for the anti-drug ads, is a government bureaucrat who spent his career developing media campaigns on the environment, endangered species, science and related subjects. He's worked for a half dozen Cabinet secretaries. I've been told he has never had anything to do with the DNC; he's said to be ``a...

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