Campaign Finance's Odd Coalition

Forbes reports:

Last week, an unusual coalition, including the Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association (the teachers' union) and the Alliance for Justice (an umbrella consumer group), asked the U.S. Federal Election Commission to enact rules allowing certain "grassroots" issue ads to be aired close to elections, without these ads counting as campaign ads.

The coalition's request to the FEC was prompted by a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision last month in an anti-abortion group's free-speech challenge to a provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2003--popularly known as the McCain-Feingold law. Under the provision at issue, unions, corporations and other organizations that broadcast ads mentioning a candidate, within 30 days of a primary election or nominating convention or within 60 days of a general election, must pay for those ads with money raised through political action committees.

It appears that McCain-Feingold is going to be challenged in all sorts of ways.What's the definition of "grassroots" issue ads before an election? It's just simply better to get rid of McCain-Feingold.I've yet to meet anyone who seriously believes, since the passage of McCain-Feingold, people feel the laws passed are more legitimate because politics has somehow been cleaned up.