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CCP Vice President to testify to FEC
Published on July 9, 2007 05:55 PM
File Under: Coordination, Political Parties
Tomorrow, Center for Competitive Politics Vice President Stephen Hoersting will testify to the Federal Election Commission concerning their Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in regard to "hybrid communications."
CCP has already submitted written comments on the proposed rulemaking in which Hoersting advocates for the FEC to allow political parties and candidates to share the costs of communication. "Any rule adopted should preserve the right of federal candidates and their parties to produce hybrid ads and allocate the costs between themselves," Hoersting wrote.
The rulemaking seeks to establish how political party committees attribute disbursements for ‘‘hybrid communications''- communications that refer both to one or more clearly identified Federal candidates and generically to candidates of a political party.
Hybrid ads came into prominence during the 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign. In the campaign, the Bush-Cheney ticket split the costs of advertisements with the Republican National Committee. Soon afterwards, the Kerry-Edwards campaign began sharing costs with the Democratic National Committee.
