Parties Set Up Groups to Elude Soft Money Ban

NATIONAL DESK | November 2, 2002, Saturday
THE 2002 CAMPAIGN: THE MONEY; Parties Set Up Groups to Elude Soft Money Ban

By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. (NYT) 1420 words
Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 1, Column 2
LEAD PARAGRAPH - The Republican and Democratic Parties have established fund-raising vehicles for unlimited campaign checks to thwart a new federal law banning ''soft money'' contributions that goes into effect after the election on Tuesday.

According to party officials and fund-raisers, both national political parties have set up state organizations and other groups that will continue to collect and spend the large unlimited campaign checks after they are barred to the national political parties by the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law on Nov. 6.