There should be no exceptions to this rule. The identification of a candidate by a political party, standing alone, should be sufficient to bring the expenditure within the FEC's regulatory ambit. They are, by definition, campaign related. This exception, although presumably intended to be narrow, doubtless would be stretched by the candidates and parties well beyond its intended scope. The Dole-GOP Bill tries to deny nearly one million families unemployment benefits.
Republicans try to block more job training today.
We make more autos than Japan, record construction, jobs, mortgage rate down. Ten thousand new jobs. More women owned companies than ever. The Republican Party ran similar ads in support of Bob Dole. The only way to prevent blatant electioneering by political parties on behalf of their Presidential nominees is to prohibit them from running advertisements that identify a Presidential candidate.