North Woods Advertising firm suing Alan Grayson

HA HA HA HA! According to Politico, nutjob Alan Grayson has been served with a lawsuit alleging he failed to pay a $20,000 “win bonus” to a Minnesota advertising firm that worked for his campaign last year. The lawsuit stems from a disagreement between the Grayson campaign and North Woods Advertising. North Woods was to be paid $20,000 if Grayson won his campaign last year, as unfortunately he did. This is known as the “win bonus” ad agencies like North Woods get if their client wins. More from Politico:

Grayson won the campaign and was elected to his first term in Congress – but never paid North Woods the $20,000 win bonus, both sides acknowledge. More than a year later, North Woods has filed suit against Grayson to collect the bonus, and another $50,000 for breach of contract, since Grayson’s campaign hired another advertising firm late in the campaign, allegedly violating an exclusivity clause in the North Woods contract.

Grayson chief of staff Julie Tagen said that the bonus wasn’t paid because North Woods owes the campaign a refund for advertisements that were purchased but never ran on television.

North Woods “massively overcharged us for everything – the most blatant thing was they never gave us a refund for ad-buys that didn’t run,” Tagen told POLITICO. “They wouldn’t send us a refund check – which is unheard of – and that’s what this all stems from. We’ve told them repeatedly: When they send us our refund, we’ll give them their win bonus.”

But Vaughn Juares, business manager and creative director of North Woods, said that all of Grayson’s advertisements ran – meaning no refund was given to them from the TV station – and that they had already sent Grayson evidence proving just that.

“There are absolutely no media refunds whatsoever that are due,” Juares said. “We faxed them 100 pages of affidavits from the station showing no refunds were due. The TV station gave us an affidavit that showed that, and they’ve had it for almost a year, so their claim is totally invalid.”

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October 30, 2009 · Filed Under Alan Grayson


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