Issue Ads Skirt Campaign Regulations

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who co-edited the 2000 book, "The Permanent Campaign and Its Future," talks about advertisements that attack politicians but don't urge an explicit vote, thereby skirting rules on campaign finance funding and disclosure in the U.S. He spoke with Bloomberg's Charles Babcock in Washington on Sept. 23. (Source: Bloomberg)