Yesterday I posted a link to an article quoting FEC Commissioner Goodman claiming that there are many more complaints against Republican and conservative campaign finance organizations than liberal and Democratic ones. I offered three potential reasons for the disparity. FEC… Continue reading

Bloomberg BNA: Republican commissioners on the Federal Election Commission are reluctant to approve new procedures to speed up resolution of pending campaign finance enforcement matters because the backlog of pending complaints at the FEC involves many more Republicans and… Continue reading

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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

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

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

Bauer blogs.

Ellen Weintraub on Up with Steve.

FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman has written this oped for Politico.

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

Watch FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub on Maddow.

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

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