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ABCNEWS.com : Bush, McCain Discuss Ads by Outside Groups:

"LAS CRUCES, N.M. Aug. 26, 2004 — President Bush wants to work with Republican Sen. John McCain to go to court against political ads by "shadowy" outside groups, the White House said Thursday amid growing pressure on the president to denounce attacks on John Kerry's war record.

"We want to pursue court action," Bush spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to New Mexico. "The president said if the court action doesn't work, that he would be willing to pursue legislative action with Sen. McCain on that........"

Bush has criticized all outside group attack ads, including the Swift Boat Veterans group's first commercial. He has said he wants the ads to stop, but has not explicitly condemned the charges made in the Swift Boat ad.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the court action envisioned by the Bush team would target all outside ads, or only those aired by the Democratic side.

McClellan said the goal is 'to shut down all of this activity by these shadowy groups.'

But the only complaint the Bush campaign and the GOP have filed with the Federal Election Commission accused the Kerry campaign of illegally coordinating millions of dollars worth of anti-Bush ads with Democratic-leaning soft-money groups, Bush-Cheney spokesman Scott Stanzel said.

It was the FEC's May 13 decision not to act on the complaint that allows the Bush campaign to turn to legal action, McClellan said.

'The FEC had an opportunity to act,' McClellan said. 'They did not act so that allows those who filed those complaints to pursue action against the FEC.'

The Kerry campaign filed its own complaint last week with the FEC, alleging that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was illegally coordinating its efforts with the Bush-Cheney campaign.

All sides deny the allegations, and neither campaign has produced proof of coordination on the part of its rival."

I love how government works. We just went through a long, hard fought battle to overhaul completely our nation's campaign finance laws. Now they find loopholes and problems. Now they need even more regulation. What's the point? Let anyone who has money buy an ad. Money IS free speech. All these rules to limit it really just limit political speech. First they regulated each party's speech, now they want to regulate any political group that even slightly affiliated with a point of view. So now if the average person wants to make a political statement, they had better get a lawyer, and fill out paperwork with the government. And the talking heads on the TV wonder why no one wants to get involved in politics any more other than crooks.

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