A 30-second PSA featuring former KHON news anchor and Talk Stink favorite, the monotone “9000″ and all around nice guy, Bill Brennan got Jim Leavitt whacked from his own law firm’s holiday commercials.
As Brennan is increasingly identified in the public eye as the mayor’s spokesman, a few people have complained that it looks like he is endorsing the firm, even though Brennan is not named in the ads.
There is no ethical violation, since Brennan taped the commercials while working as a freelancer before taking his city job. And as a paid actor, Brennan has no authority to pull the ads off the air. But because of possible confusion over whether the commercials were ethical, the law firm decided to pull them off the air this week.
“If the mayor is uncomfortable about it, that’s really all we needed to hear,” said Tom Satriano, the Denver-based media consultant to Leavitt Yamane & Soldner who handled the campaign. “We’re not here to make any waves with the mayor.”
Star-Bulletin: Mayor’s discomfort kills law firm ads
