Two FEC Officials Implore Agency to Curb 2016 Election Abuse
Via USA Today
WASHINGTON — Two Democratic members of theFederal Election Commission, who say they are frustrated by the agency’s failure to rein in campaign-finance abuses ahead of the 2016 presidential race, are making what amounts to a drastic move Monday in the staid world of federal election law.
Commissioners Ann Ravel, who is the agency’s chairwoman, and Ellen Weintraub are filing a formal petition, urging their own agency to write rules to clamp down on unfettered political spending and unmask the anonymous money flooding U.S. elections.
FEC petitions of this kind typically are made by outside supplicants — organizations or individuals trying to spur the nation’s top election regulators take up some matter. No sitting commissioner has ever filed such a petition in the agency’s 40-year history, Ravel said.
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