When 'coordinate' is a dirty word

POLITICO.com:
"The ads, which ran within days of each other, cited the same line from a Wall Street Journal article asserting the plan “would essentially end Medicare,” but Ali Lapp says she and her husband never discussed their advertising strategies. “John and I have a very simple rule – we don’t talk about House campaigns that John is working on,” Ali Lapp said in an email.

What the Lapps describe as their careful exercise in non-communicativeness is not unusual in the close-knit, and heavily regulated, world of big-money Beltway campaign politics, especially this cycle, when both sides are fully embracing so-called “super PACs” like Ali Lapp’s that can solicit donations from corporations and individuals without the limits put on parties and candidates."