another head-scratcher

[Arnold Zwicky]

On May 3, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

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>> 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."
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> "Make the ask"? New one for me. It keeps going.
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>> 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.
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> I guess, "request" was unavailable for comment.

some background:

AZ, 7/10/08: My ask:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=340

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