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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/labor_union_agrees_to_pull_montana_ads_targeting_baucus/11470/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: Television ads critical of taxing health benefits and pressuring Montana Sen. Max Baucus to oppose the idea began airing across the state Tuesday. They were then abruptly taken down. Here’s why, from USA Today: On the same day the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) began running television ads on taxing health benefits a spokesman for the union said today they will take at least some of them back down. Specifically, LIUNA spokesman Jacob Hay says the union will pull the ads in Montana following a request by Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Commitee. "Senator Baucus’ office reached out to LIUNA with a request to meet and attempt to resolve the health care tax issue. The senator’s office requested that we stop the ads until that time. We agreed to do so and expect the ads to be held back starting tomorrow," Hay wrote USA TODAY in an e-mail. Read the whole story hear.