In late October, Monte Schulz, the son of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, objected to the use of fonts, colors schemes, and other elements of his father's cartoons in mailings attacking Brown and said that he believed such mailers infringed on the cartoon's copyrights. (The mailers did not use Peanuts' characters.) Schulz sent copies of the mailers to the two companies who owned the trademarks and had editorial and art control, which sent them on to lawyers for further review. A spokesman for the Doolittle campaign said that the mailers came from the National Republican Congressional Committee, which by law does not coordinate with the Doolittle campaign.