Subject: Re: Davis recall effort and McCain-Feingold
From: "Bauer, Bob-WDC" <RBauer@perkinscoie.com>
Date: 5/29/2003, 7:54 AM
To: "'Rick.Hasen@lls.edu'" <Rick.Hasen@lls.edu>, "'election-law@majordomo.lls.edu'" <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>


No can do: he is limited in raising funds for even state law purposes to
federally permissible sources and limits. Keep in mind that BRCA
specifically limits in this way federal candidate/officeholder fundraising
for state and local candidates: also a "pure" state and local electoral
objective. The BRCA concern is not with the nature of the electoral
objective but the character of the money and the related threat of
"beholden" officeholders.