[EL] Colbert

[Steve Hoersting]

Rick,

Republican Commissioners following a path carved by Congress and the Court
is not "obstructionism."

Steve

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

> **
>  Breaking News: Stephen Colbert Brings Temporary Bipartisan Harmony to the
> FEC <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=19978>
> Posted on June 29, 2011 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=19978> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> An eagle-eyed reader notes a new item<http://fec.gov/agenda/2011/mtgdoc_1138b.pdf>posted in connection with tomorrow’s meeting of the FEC: amendments to Draft
> A <http://fec.gov/agenda/2011/mtgdoc_1138a_and_b.pdf> of the Colbert
> advisory opinion, proposed by five of the six commissioners (all besides
> Republican Commissioner McGahn).  This signals that things will go very
> smoothly (and I would guess rather quickly) at tomorrow’s FEC meeting.
>
> The draft comes closer to the position of the Democratic Commissioners
> rather than the Republican Commissioners’ initial position, and it seems to
> lessen the possibility that the Colbert opinion could have (inadvertently)
> opened up a wide expansion of the “press exemption” to further undermine
> campaign finance laws.
>
> Why would the Republican commissioners have agreed to this?  The likely
> reason, as my tipster suggests and I agree, is the negative publicity that
> would come to the Republican commissioners had the FEC deadlocked and not
> issued an AO resolving all of Colbert’s issues.
>
> But don’t worry.  Once the Colbert circus leaves the FEC tomorrow, the
> agency will go back to its usual partisan deadlocks and Republican
> Commissioner obstructionism, and be as good as dead<http://electionlawblog.org/?s=as+good+as+dead>
> .
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