Category Archives: federal election commission
“Make Your Laws” Resubmits Ravel-Weintraub FEC Petititon
Here.
I think this moots the question whether Ellen Weintraub is a “person,” though I was looking forward to her incorporating as Weintraub Inc.
Shorter Bob Bauer: Grow Up, FEC Commissioners
When the political becomes the personal.
“Federal Election Commission Members Really Don’t Like Each Other”
Paul Blumenthal on the ugliness at the FEC.
“Public Citizen Refiles Petition for FEC Commissioners Who Were Rebuffed by Their Own Agency”
Press release.
Make Your Laws has done the same.
“The FEC’s Cry for Help”
“FEC has the power, but doesn’t make the tough calls”
Karl Sandstrom CNN oped.
“Anti-Hillary Clinton Group Refuses to Change Name, Defying FEC Order”
Byron Tau for the WSJ Wash. Wire.
Commisioner Goodman Responds to Paul Ryan on Partisanship at the FEC
Here at The Hill.
“Weak Internet Security Leaves U.S. Elections Agency Vulnerable to Hackers, Reports Find”
“‘Desperate’ at the FEC Part II: The Risks of Unintended Consequences”
Ravel-Weintraub petition may backfire. Bauer makes the case.
“‘Desperate’ at the FEC”
I’ve got to agree with Bauer on this point:
One explanation provided to USA Today is that it will allow for a hearing at which the general public will be heard. But such a hearing has been held, and the… Continue reading
Read the Ravel-Weintraub Petition for the FEC to Engage in New Rulemaking
“Exclusive: Two FEC officials implore agency to curb 2016 election abuse”
Fredreka Schouten for USA Today reports that FEC Commissioners Ravel and Weintraub “are filing a formal petition, urging their own agency to write rules to clamp down on unfettered political spending and unmask the anonymous money flooding U.S. elections.”