"Appraising BCRA: The Early Returns are Troubling"

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 — but not if it accepts unlimited individual monies. A little more presidential precision on these points would have been commendable, but it was hardly to be expected.

I hope that Bob will post the full version of his oped at his nicely redesigned website.

Posted by Rick Hasen at September 14, 2004 06:17 AM