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 | | Kerry, meanwhile, is the subject of complaints by the Bush campaign and the Republican National Committee accusing his campaign of illegally coordinating anti-Bush ads with soft-money groups on the Democratic side, allegations he and the groups deny. |
 | | He also served as counsel to the RNC in its unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to overturn the nation’s campaign finance law, which banned the national party committees from collecting corporate, union and unlimited donations known as soft money and imposed stricter rules on coordination involving parties, candidates and interest groups. |
 | | Larry Noble, head of the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics campaign watchdog group and former FEC general counsel, said it’s true that serving as a lawyer for both a campaign and a soft-money group isn’t considered automatic evidence of coordination under commission rules, but added that it doesn’t mean the FEC won’t look at it. |
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