Bob Bauer writes this Roll Call oped, responding to Norm Ornstein’s column on 527s last week. A snippet:
- While Ornstein is right to take the president to task for proposing the abolition of 527s, he is making matters seem simpler than what they are. The law did not completely abolish 527 ads, but it does prohibit some of those ads, run some of the time, if the 527 is incorporated or accepts corporate or union money