In this recent post on the McCain-Feingold proposal to revamp the FEC, I linked to this CCP post, which discussed which former FEC commissioners would not have been subject to term limits and therefore could serve on the proposed new commission: “There are currently eight living former commissioners who were never subject to term limits while on the Commission. Six of them are octogenarians who have been out of public life for years, and the others are Tom Josefiak and Trevor Potter, the latter of whom is John McCain’s campaign counsel. Hmm… does that explain anything?”
Trevor Potter responds via email:

I read your post referring to the so-called “Potter exception” with some surprise–surprise that Scott Thomas and Dave Mason are octogenarians despite looking so young. Who would have thought it!