“More Conflict at the FEC: The Question of Partisanship and the Problem of Finger-Pointing”

Bauer:

A dispute over whether the FEC is tilting its investigations against conservatives or Republicans is mostly a waste of energy.  Commissioner Goodman got this started at a Commission hearing and has been rebuked by Commissioner Ravel.  The Republicans profess to be outraged; the Democrats announce that this outrage has rendered them speechless.  Once again there is here, in the midst of this clamor, an important question– the uses and misuses of the agency’s enforcement process—that is being misdirected into another round of finger-pointing about bad faith and improper motive.

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