A new FEC rulemaking petition from Sandler Reiff looks to strengthen political parties.

State and local party committees play a critical role in the American political system. First, they play an important role in our democracy by pursuing political goals that a majority of Americans support. Second these committees are well situated to perform grassroots political activity in order to support the party’s national political and electoral interests, which can help ensure consistency and cohesion in party goals. While it used to be common practice for state parties to pay for communications featuring candidates from the top to the bottom of the party ticket, these are now largely replaced by single candidate communication – and only when the party is able to allocate their scarce resources to the cause.

The full document is available here.