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> What is required to qualify as a political campaign?

The text of the law has a definition, but it looks like it ks basically a legal, FEC regulated candidate or state or national party campaign committee.

> I assume worst case I can always have someone run for some office on the platform of "make sure everyone can continue to access effective ED treatment on edpharmacy24.com" and campaign for them?

I suspect if you are edpharmacy24.com, doing that would be an effective way to game this bill, while likely running into enough problems with a bunch of existing campaign finance rules, without the kind of shroud of plausible deniability people even skirting those rules prefer to maintain.



The definition given is "The term ``political campaign'' includes-- [a list follows]", and my understanding of the canons of construction indicates that this means that the term is not to be understood to be a fully enumerated list in the definition: anything on the list would constitute a "political campaign", but something not on the list could also still constitute a "political campaign."




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