| Subject: more news |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 9/22/2004, 2:52 PM |
| To: election-law@majordomo.lls.edu |
The A.P. offers Bush
Team Orchestrates Larger Ad Campaign,
which begins: "President Bush's political team is orchestrating a
vastly larger advertising campaign than thought possible under federal
law, taking control of millions in Republican Party funds simply by
inserting the phrase "our leaders in Congress" in selected commercials.
The GOP strategy had gone unnoticed for weeks by Sen. John Kerry and
the Democrats, who now may abandon their own less-cost-efficient
approach to advertising."
No doubt, more on this in coming days as well.
The Campaign Legal Center has assembled these materials on the new legislation proposed by Sens. McCain, Feingold, and Lieberman and Members of Congress Shays and Meehan, intended to rein in 527s.
Two quick reactions:
1. Would reining in 527s simply push activity to 501(c)(3)s and other organizations?
2. Is it constitutional to limit contributions to 527s that engage solely in making independent expenditures? As readers of this blog know, I think this is a very difficult and uncertain question.
More to follow on this proposed legislation in coming days.
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