Subject: Re: Bauer views on 527s and Tobin/Foley article
From: "Bauer, Bob-WDC" <RBauer@perkinscoie.com>
Date: 1/21/2004, 7:05 PM
To: "'sweissman@cfinst.org'" <sweissman@cfinst.org>, "'election-law@majordomo.lls.edu'" <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>


Steve is right about the officeholder candidate and solicitation
provisions--they do read that way--but wrong in suggesting that I missed
something. For while someone could dispute my phrasing, the point I made is
that parties--precisely because of their control of or close relationship to
candidates--were placed under restrictions not applied to