1.   Banning issue advocacy, they say, will limit free speech.

2.   But she said that it qualified as issue advocacy.

3.   Clarke, too, once worked in advertising, as president of Bozell Eskew Advertising, which specializes in issue advocacy and corporate communications.

4.   Feingold, up for re-election this year, was the Democratic champion of campaign finance reform legislation that would have sharply restricted issue advocacy if enacted.

5.   It does not limit spending on issue advocacy by independent groups but it requires more disclosure.

6.   It would also put some restraints on issue advocacy ads that are thinly veiled commercials designed to support or oppose a particular federal candidate.

7.   Much of the advertising last year by unions, and the response by business groups, were called issue advocacy.

8.   Opponents of the bill said its restrictions on issue advocacy infringed on the First Amendment.

9.   Opponents of the bill spoke out against regulation and said its restrictions on issue advocacy infringed on the First Amendment.

10.   Political activism and paid, issue advocacy are deeply entwined at the Sierra Club.