"Coordination’ Difficult to Prove"

Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required). It begins:

The Federal Election Commission recently dismissed a complaint alleging that EMILY’s List had unlawfully coordinated its broadcast advertising buys in with the 2004 campaign of unsuccessful Florida Senate hopeful Betty Castor (D).

The basis on which the decision was made, however, may represent the FEC’s formalization of a method used by the parties and outside groups to comply with — or in the view of it critics, circumvent — contribution limits

Posted by Rick Hasen at September 19, 2005 08:19 AM