“Only a lunatic or a glutton for gridlock would want to copy the FEC….I think what they want is a commission that will routinely gridlock and get nothing done.”

–Dan Tokaji, quoted in GOP bills would hike contribution limits, split GAB into two agencies (“Daniel Tokaji, a professor at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University who specializes in election law, called the accountability board a model for the nation and said it was ridiculous to turn elections over to partisans. He noted the Federal Election Commission routinely deadlocks because it is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.”)