[EL] The Chamber and disclosure

[David Mason]

"The term 'electioneering communication' does not include ...
(ii) a communication which constitutes an expenditure or independent
expenditure under [the FECA]"
2 USC 434(f)(3)(B)

An express advocacy communication is an expenditure or independent
expenditure, so it is definitionally excluded by the statute.

Dave Mason

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Frank Askin <faskin at kinoy.rutgers.edu>wrote:

>   I do not understand how the Chamber of Commerce can evade disclosure
> of contributors by shifting electioneering communications to express
> advocacy.  Aren't express advocacy ads  also "electioneering
> communications" if they include the name of a candidate during the
> covered period.  FRANK
>
>
> Prof. Frank Askin
> Distinguished Professor of Law       and Director
> Constitutional Litigation Clinic
> Rutgers Law School/Newark
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