Sunday, November 16, 2008
Barack Obama - and the F.E.C.
My first thought was that I thought they fixed all this.
Duh! "they" are politicians.
Can anyone remember anything about governing themselves that they have ever fixed?
And what does the FEC really do anyway?...
Duh! "they" are politicians.
Can anyone remember anything about governing themselves that they have ever fixed?
And what does the FEC really do anyway?...
At Politico.com, Kenneth P. Vogel reports:
"The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign’s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul.
Adding insult to injury for Republicans: The FEC is obligated to complete a rigorous audit of McCain’s campaign coffers, which will take months, if not years, and cost McCain millions of dollars to defend.
Obama is expected to escape that level of scrutiny mostly because he declined an $84 million public grant for his campaign that automatically triggers an audit and because the sheer volume of cash he raised and spent minimizes the significance of his errors. Another factor: The FEC, which would have to vote to launch an audit, is prone to deadlocking on issues that inordinately impact one party or the other – like approving a messy and high-profile probe of a sitting president."
