Prof. Painter Quoted in New York Times on Filming Campaign Commercial in West Wing

Professor Richard Painter was quoted in the print edition of The New York Times in an article on President Obama's filming of a campaign commercial in the White House Chief of Staff's office in the West Wing. Painter said that, as the chief ethics lawyer for President Bush, he would not have approved of the filming of a campaign commercial in the West Wing, there was nothing illegal or highly improper about it unless fundraising were involved.