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Colorado Republicans v FEC (10267 words) |
 | The Colorado Party, for its part, did not challenge a different provision of the statute-a provision that imposes a $5,000 limit on any contribution by a "multicandidate political committee" (including a coordinated expenditure) and which would apply to party coordinated expenditures if the entire Party Expenditure Provision were struck from the statute as unconstitutional. |
| Party spending "in cooperation, consultation, or concert with" a candidate therefore is indistinguishable in substance from expenditures by the candidate or his campaign committee. |
| Parties are left to wonder whether their speech is protected by the First Amendment when the Government can show-presumably with circumstantial evidence-a link between the Party and the candidate with respect to the speech in question. |
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