The Federal Election Commission has deadlocked over whether to proceed with an enforcement case involving allegations that Christine O’Donnell’s 2010 campaign for the U.S. Senate in Delaware was illegally coordinated with the political action committee of the Tea Party Movement.A report from the FEC general counsel’s office recommended an investigation of the unsuccessful campaign of O’Donnell, a Republican, as well as the Tea Party organization, called Our Country Deserves Better PAC—TeaPartyExpress.org.
The subscription-only BNA report details additional new documents showing campaign finance obstructionism by the three Republican FEC commissioners.