Wednesday, November 21, 2007

More on FEC ad rules

The Washington Post blog, The Trail, has a nice roundup of voices on the new FEC advertising rules. Save it for halftime of the Lions game tomorrow... or not. Happy Thanksgiving!

UPDATE... more here from The Hill.

UPDATE from the election law listserve, an interesting observation from Brian Svoboda:

The FEC is simply setting itself up for the same dialectic that has long characterized its enforcement process: (1) agency gives example of what is prohibited; (2) sponsor crafts ad to hew away from the prohibited example; (3) reform advocates deride supposed toothlessness of agency prohibition; (4) agency responds by targeting sponsors; thus prompting (5) continued reform community derision, and howls from the regulated about the lack of fair notice.

Sounds about how it will go.

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