another head-scratcher

[Victor Steinbok]

http://goo.gl/BnQYZ

> Bopp parsed two court rulings, one of them on a case he brought. By
> his reading, and contrary to past law, it's OK for a federal candidate
> to call up a CEO and make the ask. "I can read the law," he says, "and
> I felt confident that what we were doing was well within the
> strictures of the law."

"Make the ask"? New one for me. It keeps going.

> Within the law, because the ask wouldn't be for the candidate's own
> campaign committee -- it would be on behalf of an independent group
> called a superPAC, which would then spend the money in support of the
> candidate.

I guess, "request" was unavailable for comment.

     VS-)

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