By Eliza Newlin Carney
…At least now, the nation is wading into a long-overdue public debate over where such lines should be drawn. It’s a question that urgently needs settling now that the Supreme Court has unleashed a flood of new election-minded tax-exempt groups with its 2010 ruling to deregulate political spending. These organizations operate outside the normal Federal Election Commission disclosure rules.
Some of the ideas now being tossed about may not get very far. It would be a heavy lift to strip all campaign finance enforcement away from the IRS, for example, and hand it over to the FEC — as Center for Competitive Politics President David Keating recently recommended to the Ways and Means Committee…
