FEC Nomination Impasse Stalls Disclosure of Bundling Data
4th April 2008
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“This is an absurd situation to be in. If another country was doing this, we’d call them a banana republic,” said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, one of the leading watchdogs.
Especially ironic, considering that Democrats are holding up the show.
But Obama also is leading Democratic objections to the FEC nomination of a controversial former Justice Department lawyer, Hans A. von Spakovsky, whom Democrats accuse of exerting political influence over voter fraud and election law decisions. A recent inspector general’s report cleared von Spakovsky and other Justice officials of censoring a bipartisan commission’s examination of intimidation of minority voters, but Democrats remain steadfastly opposed to his FEC nomination.
Don’t confuse is with facts, our minds are made up.