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Ed Whitfield: “Buckley adopted the `express advocacy' requirement to distinguish discussion of issues and candidates from more pointed…”

On the recordJune 18, 1998
Buckley adopted the `express advocacy' requirement to distinguish discussion of issues and candidates from more pointed exhortations to vote for particular persons. We therefore concluded in that case that a finding of `express advocacy' depended upon the use of language such as `vote for,' `elect,' `support,' et cetera. Just such an exhortation appears in the `Special Edition' in this case. The publication not only urges voters to vote for `pro-life' candidates, but also identifies and provides photographs of specific candidates fitting that description. So it seems to me in this case, they are definitely verifying and accepting the definition of express advocacy as set out in Buckley.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of express advocacy in campaign finance during a congressional debate.

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