"FEC Fines Soar"

Roll Call offers this report ($), which begins: "A multimillion-dollar settlement with mortgage giant Freddie Mac bolstered a record year for fines by the Federal Election Commission in fiscal 2006, with the agency levying nearly $6 million in penalties -- more than tripling its enforcement haul from the year prior. 'We're trying to focus on the more important cases, and sometimes those generate big fines,' said Ellen Weintraub, a Democratic-nominated commissioner. 'It's not "your father’s Oldsmobile" around here.'" With this quote, shouldn't the headline have been "FEC Revs Up Fines"?

Posted by Rick Hasen at December 7, 2006 06:38 AM