See this report ($) from BNA’s Money and Politics Report. It begins: “Lax Federal Election Commission rules governing illegal ‘coordination’ between federal candidates and outside groups could allow the emerging crop of presidential candidates to rely on corporations, unions, or wealthy individuals to supply unlimited funding for their campaign advertising in the early stages of the 2008 race, campaign reform supporters are telling a federal judge. Papers filed in a lawsuit on behalf of Reps. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Martin Meehan (D-Mass.) outline the objections to the FEC’s coordination rules (Shays v. FEC, D.C. D., Civil No. 06-1247, filed 2/16/07).”