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Two ray ban wayfarer campaign finance lawyers and reform advocates told The Huffington Post that Rove's activities at the retreat test the legal definition of what, exactly, "coordination" is. "The commonsense and the dictionary definition of coordination is very different from the narrow Federal Election Commission regulations defining impermissible coordination," said former Republican FEC chairman Trevor Potter in an interview. "Lots of things are coordination in fact, but are not in law." "The fact that Rove was at the gathering presents an obvious opportunity for coordination," added Potter, who is president of the Campaign Legal Center and a strong advocate for tougher campaign finance rules. "Just being there in the middle of the oakley sunglasses womens online sale campaign, surrounded by Romney strategists and campaign aides for several days, has the potential for tainting the independence of American Crossroads' advertising, depending on what conversations, if any, Rove had with campaign officials." Other campaign finance reform advocates went further, suggesting that Rove's activities at the retreat were improper. "This kind of activity [by Rove] is the last thing the Supreme Court had in mind when it ruled that spending by an outside group had to be 'totally independent' and 'wholly independent' from a candidate the group is supporting with expenditures," Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21, said in an interview. "The FEC lives in a pure fantasy world in the oakley sunglasses mens discount 2012 way it attempts to define coordinated activities as not being coordinated activities."