But that loophole is big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through. I will bow to your expertise but I also see an attempt here to give state party organizations a lot more freedom from the central control of the National party. That could be very good thing using the recent California primary as an example of out of touch national party meddeling.
I think this is the part Wayne LaPierre is going nuts over that I looked for and missed earlier.
Sec. 213) Prohibits a committee of a political party from making both independent and coordinated expenditures for a general election candidate.
That sounds harmless, but these deals and plans and stuff means there is more than meets the eye. The NRA was in tight with W in the last election. Someone could prove that it was a coordinated expendature.
I'll look more into this tomorrow and this weekend. With the John Dingell/Lynn Rivers, Fred Upton/Dale Shugars and Jim Barcia/Dale Kildee primaries and Rocky/Levin coming up, we may be getting involved in federal races, and I'll have to find out a few things here.
Michigan laws are strict, but at least they are fairly clear.