Category Archives: federal election commission
“Do Commissioners Weintraub and Ravel Want the FEC to Fail?”
Brad Smith:
Ann Ravel, the Democratic Chair of the Federal Election Commission, made headlines early this month when she told the New York Times that her agency was “worse than dysfunctional” and that “the likelihood of the [federal campaign… Continue reading
“The FEC, the Big Issues, and Getting Right a Few Basics–Like Disclosure”
Bauer:
Public Citizen has concluded that the Federal Election Commission is failing. Its shortcomings are “dramatic and uncharacteristic”, because they range across the entire field of their responsibilities in conducting audits; enforcing the law through investigations, settlements and lawsuits;… Continue reading
“Roiled in Partisan Gridlock, the FEC Cannot Do Its Job in the 2016 Elections”
Press release:
The nation’s elections agency remains incapacitated by the ideological divide between its Democratic and Republican commissioners, according to a study (PDF) Public Citizen released today.
In “Roiled in Partisan Gridlock, Federal Election Commission is Failing,”… Continue reading
“Holding Down the Fort or Tearing it down: Law Reform Projects at the FEC”
“The struggle to regulate big money in 2016”
Ellen Weintraub on Up with Steve.
“The FEC’s Problems Aren’t with the GOP”
FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman has written this oped for Politico.
3 FEC Republican Commissioners Respond to NYT Report
Here, in this letter to the editor.
“The FEC’s ‘non-partisan’ whistleblower”
Politico on FEC Chair Ravel.
It is amazing how much attention the FEC has gotten this week since the publication of Eric Licthbalu’s NYT story on dysfunction at the FEC.
But as readers of this blog know, the story is… Continue reading
“Big money politics runs amok with FEC in gridlock”
Watch FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub on Maddow.
Another View on Dysfunction at the FEC
Another reader writes:
Your correspondent put a strange slant on your old Slate article about Hans Von Spakovsky & the FEC. Nowhere in your article did you suggest that Hans would have acted/voted any differently than Don McGahn. You simply… Continue reading
Is Dems’ Objection to Von Spakovsky the Real Source of FEC Dysfunction?
In response to my earlier post, a reader offers a different and very interesting perspective:
You say on your blog that the “origins” of the current “dysfunction” trace to Don McGahn. “Don McGahn” may serve as a convenient origin… Continue reading
Neuborne on Williams-Yulee
Here at ACS.
Is FEC Dysfunction New?
NYT reports on record low fines at the FEC.
For those who responded to Eric Lichtblau’s earlier report by saying that the FEC was always gridlocked and dysfunctional, it’s just not true. It never had great enforcement powers, but there… Continue reading