From Roll Call: Trevor Potter, a former FEC chairman who is now president and general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, charged that the proposal was a backdoor attempt by opponents of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act “to reopen the issue ad loophole” closed by that legislation. “This is the same coalition that opposed the passage of BCRA,” Potter said. What von Spakovsky say to that? Von Spakovsky said he believes his proposal is “narrowly drawn and does not exempt the electioneering communications that Congress sought to subject to BCRA’s funding and reporting restrictions, i.e., ‘sham issue ads’ that have an electioneering purpose.”