[EL] "Coordination" is not anything Congress says it is

[Steve Hoersting]

It seems Fred Wertheimer has a plan to stop the information we've been
getting from SuperPACs: Have Congress define "independence" out of
existence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/super-pacs-can-be-thwarted-even-with-citizens-united/2012/04/03/gIQARrqytS_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions

I look forward to reading the details of his proposed legislation.  But it
seems Fred's plan would keep campaign consultants from one day becoming
political consultants -- choose your career path wisely! -- and keep
candidates from associating to any degree with an organization that may
support them.  I wonder if Fred's next loophole will be candidate
endorsements.

And wonder when he will do anything about the more glaring "loophole" in
the laws governing politics and policy: Preventing policy tanks the
"distorting" advantage of coordinating the roll-out of their legislative
proposals in the nation's largest newspapers.

-- 
Stephen M. Hoersting
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