‘Super PAC’ American Crossroads seeks permission to feature candidates in ads

American Crossroads, the largest of a new generation of political interest groups, is seeking to use a loophole in campaign laws to do something that has occupied a gray area of election law: produce advertisements featuring federal candidates and officeholders.

That would be a step that Crossroads and other "super PACs" have not taken so far. But the conservative Crossroads says it is just following a precedent set by the Democratic Party, which has spent at least a half-million dollars in recent months on ads featuring Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) talking about his record.

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Zachary A. Goldfarb 13 Oct, 2011

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