DNC to File Suit To Compel FEC Investigation Into McCain's Public Money
By Nicole Belle Sunday Apr 13, 2008 12:00pm
The Democratic National Committee is set to file a complaint (.pdf) in federal court against the Federal Election Commission, saying the regulatory agency has failed to act on a request to investigate and take action against Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential-nominee-in-waiting, for reversing his decision to use public money in the general election.
In February, the DNC asked the FEC to look into whether the McCain campaign violated federal election law by using the promise of federal matching funds for loans and by exceeding the $50 million spending limit for the primaries. The FEC has been unable to make a quorum since the initial DNC request.
Even before the Democrats submitted their February complaint, the FEC mailed the McCain campaign a letter asking for an explanation of an agreement it entered into with Fidelity Bank and Trust Bank of Bethesda. Democrats say that agreement is proof the McCain team violated the law.
Amazing. The DNC has to go to court to get McCain to abide by his word on public financing. The man who chalks up campaign finance reform as one of his accomplishments doesn't want it to apply to him. FireDogLake has a petition to sign that will be delivered on Tuesday saying that McCain must abide by the law.
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Fight the good fight, Dems!
Thanks Nicole! Go Jane! As if there could be any doubt that the media is a propaganda vehicle for the Right, the reluctance with which they acknowledge this story ought to make it clear. An obvious case of blatant hypocrisy, and they chose to nitpick the Democrats to death instead...
I mean, overspending for a lie-built war is NOTHING compared to overspending for a lie-built campaign. I'm so proud of the Democrats! I'd put them on the table any day!
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Now McCain is going to get a sympathy vote cuz them Democrats are being mean to him!
Good, Maybe MSM will report it. I'm tired of the media's handling of Saint McCain. Meanwhile, 'Bittermania' is playing out and McCain just hangs in the backround. Pisses me off.
Interesting, the "values" crowd has to be sued to actually apply the values about which they blather on incessantly. Values include sticking by your word and being honest, playing by the rules, etc. No big surprise.
Why is the DNC doing this? Won't this just put more pressure on Obama to keep his word about his own promise to use public funds in the general election? I don't know why democrats would want to press the issuse with McCain when their own candidate has made similar vows.
They mentioned this story on NPR this morning and treated like every issue: A He-said-she-said political fight.
The Democrats said there needs to be an investigation, and the Republicans stated that this suit is completely without merit. So did NPR weigh the facts and give the listeners an informed opinion of who was right?
Nope.
I hope this doesn't blow up in our (collective) faces... a lawsuit construed, as somehow; desperate.
I do think the suit should continue, but the guy is such a darling of the big media companies, I can see them presenting this as attempt to discredit him because we can't fight him on the issues.
At first I thought it said, DNC to File Suit To Compel FEC Investigation Into McCain’s Pubic Money.
I thought McCain looks familiar. He plays the older dude in porno movies boffing young ladies in Baby Face videos.
Talking about McCain and death taxes:
http://wsjparody.com/
It's about time. I'm going to go sign that petition this minute.
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Interesting that "The FEC has been unable to make a quorum since the initial DNC request."
Anyone know who sits on the FEC? Why they've "been unable to make a quorum"?
Inquiring minds want to know!
There is an additional way that things are being violated. If you took the cash value of all the radio, TV and press time or space that McCain receives because the MSM is prostituting itself for him, in effect giving him free advertising and a free forum from whichto campaign campaign, the monetary benefit would be in the billions. He's being heavily pimped by the MSM; they are using their wealth and resources to campaign on his behalf.
This is one of the things the Fairness Doctrine pre-empted.
Mojitoes @ 8:
Obama never made a promise to use public funds for the general election. It was a questionnaire he filled out and what he said was if he is the nominee, he would meet with the Republican candidate to hammer out a deal--presumably is concerning how both campaigns would deal with 527s, etc.
McCain's case is different because of the terms of the loan he took out. That loan seems to legally bind him to public financing.
DNC shoulda gotten a front org to do this for them so it don't look like the evil libs are attacking a poor old man.
That being said, lets face it, McCain is all in on this. Its not like he'll be running for prez again anytime soon. He'll be lucky not to lose his senate seat next reelection if he loses the race for prez. So I don't think McCain will be doing anything that he thinks will hurts his chances to win.
McFucked.
I'm sick of the media's handling of teflon Saint Ronnie Reagan McCain.
Gawd, the talking heads on the Sunday gabfests are calling McBush "formidable". I wonder if Diebold has written the programming to hijack yet another election.
You guys do realize that there is a very tangled web already in place to insure this geezer becomes the next preznit, right? The FEC isn't an issue, it's Diebold and the "from behind victory" McCain will enjoy in November. All of this is just peeing in the wind.
McScarface
Dr. Acula @ 20:
Yes they have...
#4
people, including me, like to see people's eyes when they speak. Wearing shades inside not a good idea.
Lord God King of campaign finance reform is now it's fool!
Think!
I hope everyone realizes that getting a quorum on the FEC will require George Bush to make appointments. Nothing good has ever come from a Bush appointment.
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Dr. Acula @ 20:
Diebold Givesw Up 2008 Election Results
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McPocrisy anyone?
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I wonder if another 4 years of bush are in the wind if diebold ( didn't they change their name??) does rig this election like the last 2 there will be hell to pay what may happen is that they'll sit this one out and in 4 years try again I mean the american public is dense ( as a stone) but 3 elections won by dimmer as we speak bulbs is pushing it
In the first place.........................
If no one is home at the FEC. Who approves McCain's public funding?
How does McCain get money from the FEC when nobody is home?
Peter G--thanks!
http://buckfush.com/
Here's your key quote.
"The FEC has been unable to make a quorum since the initial DNC request."
So what does McCain have to worry about, break the law, but if the "law" never gets around to it, you are not in jeopardy. The current executive government just ignores the legislative branch because they own the judicial. And less than 50% of us care, the rest just want to party and not get a headache over all of this. So much for you balance of power. We're screwed.
Mojitoes @ 8:
Obama didn't promise to use public funds. All he said was he'd think about it.
YES!
BushCo better huffy up and stack more courts with crooked, unqaulified, conservative activist judges to help his boy out!
Dr. Acula @ 20:
Diebold and ES&S, both owned by the Urosevich brothers. Quite a racket they got going. Not to mention the GOP's methods of a "thousand little cuts" at the polls, such as: GOP stations have lots of machines, while Dem poll stations have few and long lines.
You know what gets me about the FEC thing, in addition to all this BS, is that there are only two people there. That's part of the reason why the DNC couldn't get the FEC to investigate. The Bushies haven't filled the FEC.
If someone refuses at the FEC, who does congress go to for the enforcement? DOJ?
catch 22, #10592027320 served since 2001. Approximately 50K national security letters issued to keep people with important testimony from speaking to anyone.
your republican form of government at work. 10592027321 served since 2001.
Waste of time and money. Just another distraction for which the taxpayers will foot the whole bill. There are better battles to fight.
Sternly worded letters of the world unite!
A reslug abide by laws that don't directly benefit him? What color is the sky on your planet?
Can I get an order of McFree Pass and a side of hypocracy?
YourMom @ 39:
McCain is breaking federal election laws, which he helped write. How is that a distraction?
DNC to File Suit To Compel FEC Investigation Into McCain’s Pubic Money. So the DNC, Democrats, think we should waste time on suing the McCain campaign. Why don' they just go after the Bush administration? Pelosi, Reid, anyone? The voters made it very clear what we expected the Democrats to do. So what do they do? Not a damn thing til now and they think suing McCain is going to go anywhere? We should right now be looking at impeachment of Bush and Cheney. But that would be too difficult and might make the repugs mad. God forbid! There is still time, before Bush gets us into war with Iran, before another 1000 of our men and women in uniform are killed and another 2000 are maimed. What is wrong with this picture? The Democrats are spineless and care nothing about the voters til it is time for a vote that is.
C'mon .. McCain's a Republican ..
He doesn't need to follow no stinkin' RULES !!!
Dr. Acula @ 20:
That will probably trigger the start of the 2nd American Revolution/civil war if they do.
BREAK THE LAW.... WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN BADGES!!!
I, JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN, PROMISE TO FOLLOW WHICHEVER LAWS SUIT ME.
FOR EXAMPLE YOU DONT SEE ME JAYWALKING
Leslie @ 42:
Because nothing will come of it...
Paul @ 45:
You're assuming Americans still understand/give a damn about Democracy... which they don't.
Even if it were a precedent setting landmark decision by the SCOTUS, it still would not be reported by the MSM.
In other headline news, Obama proves once again his arrogant elitist attitude by not eating at McDonald's for the fifth day in a row. "Does he hate America?" Hear to discuss this breaking news with us are Pat Buchanan, Bill Kristol, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, and Newt Gingrich."
Frank Dufek @ 48:
That thought did cross my mind when I wrote that. You're probably right. By the time people woke up from their slumber of narcoleptic apathy, it'll be too late.
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