• The court upheld ban on coordinated expenditures by political parties on behalf of a candidate
  • Coordinated expenditures by political parties are the same as contributions

Main Ideas

Coordinated Expenditures = Contributions

• Coordinated Expenditures are spending for whatever the candidate or his affiliates has asked for you to fund without giving that money directly to the candidate.
• Contributions essentially allow the candidate to pocket the money and do as he wishes with it

<aside> 💡 Both coordinated expenditures and contributions pay for the same thing, coordinated expenditures is just a fallacious degree of separation.

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“There is no significant functional difference between a party’s coordinated expenditure and a direct party contribution to the candidate.”

• They’re both collaborative/coordinated efforts to pay for a candidate’s campaign.
• Distilled to essence, even the names mean the same.

Coordinated vs. Independent Expenditures

Expenses

• Independent Expenditures are spending for auxiliary elements of a campaign like ads or podiums.
• Coordinated Expenditures are spending for whatever the candidate or his affiliates has asked for you to fund.

Coordination vs. Independence

• The “independent” in “independent expenditures“ means that it was done without cooperation with a candidate or his affiliates.
• The “coordinated” in “coordinated expenditures“ illustrates collaboration between the funder (contributor) and the candidate or his affiliates re: allocation of the money.