Joint fund-raising committees are a recent innovation in the interpretation of campaign-finance law.
The verdict in former Senator John Edwards's federal corruption trial could come down to how jurors apply the judge's interpretation of federal campaign law, John Schwartz writes.
He would say 'he's my father and I support my father.' " Missteps Along the Trail The most common interpretation of the 1978 campaign is that Mr. Bush was a wonderful campaigner and natural-born politician.
Former Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson's dissent called the holding "an unprecedented and faulty interpretation of Wisconsin's campaign finance law and of the First Amendment" and said it "delivers a significant blow to Wisconsin's campaign finance law".
Most of the "lies"—almost all of which are actually mistakes or misrepresentations, not deliberate falsehoods are products of the endless spin and interpretation of America's "permanent campaign".
The aggressive interpretation of the nation's campaign finance laws has been a hallmark of the Clinton years in Washington; one of her closest advisers, Harold P. Ickes, a lawyer, is renowned in national political circles for his mastery of the use of so-called soft money.
(She was referring to remarks by Samantha Power, a former policy adviser forced to resign over calling Mrs. Clinton a "monster" who also told the international press last week that Mr. Obama would not act on specific timetables for withdrawals until he had sought counsel from generals on the ground. The Obama campaign has cried foul on the Clinton campaign's interpretation of these remarks).
At the same time, there are online Muslim-led movements from the U.K. and Western Europe that are actively denouncing interpretationtatiof of Islam through hashtag campaigns like #NotInMyName and through YouTube videos from British imams.
The tax treatment of the payments has drawn considerable interest from tax lawyers, who have written on this subject on various blogs, challenging the campaign's interpretation of tax law.
Granted, the paper cites the conclusions of other economists – some of whom are not associated with Mr. Romney but when Ezra Klein of The Washington Post asked these economists "what they thought of the Romney campaign's interpretation of their research," they all "responded with a polite version of Marshall McLuhan's famous riposte.
The money is ostensibly limited to legal fees and party conventions but anyone who has taken economics knows that money is fungible and that loose interpretations of what little campaign finance regulation remains will not impede the scope of how this extra money will actually be spent.
