41.9: Coordinated Spending Limits

Increase coordinated spending limits.

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When parties spend money in coordination with their candidates, the candidates are responsible for the message and are easily held accountable by the voters. Such is not the case with spending by third-party organizations. So the kind of speech for which candidates are most accountable other than that of their own campaigns is far more limited than speech by third-party groups, for which candidates have no accountability. The coordinated spending limits for national and state parties should be removed or at least increased to allow voters to hear more of the candidates' messages to compete with the messages of third-party groups and the media.

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