Not quite. What I'm getting at is that the definition captures all kinds of expenditures that have nothing to do with either a leadership contest or a nomination contest, which we're not intending to capture.
We would not read it that way. The definition was just borrowed from other provisions of the act. For clarity's sake, we would interpret this narrowly. I would recommend that we remove references to irrelevant entities.
A leadership campaign expense is a campaign expense that was incurred in relation to the leadership contest, not some other entity or event. Similarly for a nomination contest....