Legal Question for You Lawyers Out There

[trinityvixen]

I read this today:Bush Campaign's Top Outside Lawyer Resigns

Granted, Kerry's got a lawyer working with a group that is doing 'get out the vote' drives, but isn't this illegal? I thought that the 527s had to operate entirely separately from candidate's campaigns. If they're sharing a lawyer, isn't that coordinating in an extent? According to the article, no, since lawyers are deemed 'not strategists.' Who the hell does that law thinks it's kidding? Lawyers are excellent strategists. It's basically what they do for a living...

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[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not saying Kerry's immune either. I would not be in the least surprised to learn that MoveOn and other groups are just a hush-hush part of the Democratic Party, though they occasionally make somewhat more radical gestures than the Party has the balls to do publicly. It's a big political machine, basically; one created by two mutually insupportable and widely recognized facts: nobody can win an election in a television-saturated era without megabucks, but there's too much money (and corrupting money) in politics.
And that's why campaign finance reform is doomed.

But yeah. The machine is the machine; it's been like that for at least the last hundred years (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington says that much). The problem is the same now as it was then: truth is strangled and lies set up in its place. That's the worst thing about the Swifties, and the worst thing about Fox, and the worst thing about, well... all of it...

ps, more anger fodder: on Bush's astroturfing...