I can't wait for the commissioners to follow the administration's lead
and stop authorizing the defense of provisions they find repugnant to
the Constitution.

-Scott Bieniek

On Monday, March 14, 2011, Craig Holman <holman@aol.com> wrote:

 Colleagues:

Below is a link to an op-ed I published in today's Roll Call.
Holman: Obama Cannot Ignore the FEC Any Longer
				
				By Craig HolmanSpecial to Roll CallMarch 14, 2011, Midnight
				
				
						
								
								
						
						
			      			
					
							

This is getting ridiculous. After April, all but one of the six
commissioners on the Federal Election Commission will be sitting with
expired terms. Half the commission had their terms expire two years ago.
 Yet, there they sit — voting in an unprecedented number of 3-to-3
partisan deadlocks, preventing the elections agency from making
decisions, offering advice or even enforcing the law.





The Federal Election Commission is broken. What should alarm us is
that this is the agency that is supposed to monitor our elections and
disclose who is funding which campaigns. Sadly, the FEC is barely
fulfilling its mission — and the agency is closing its eyes just as we
are entering the 2012 election cycle, which is likely to see spending
hit more than $3 billion in the onslaught to buy the White House, fueled
 by secretive and unlimited corporate cash.





The single greatest reason the FEC is now unable to do its job is the
 ideological dogma of some of its members.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_95/-204063-1.html










Craig Holman, Ph.D.
Government Affairs Lobbyist
Public Citizen
215 Pennsylvania Avenue NE
Washington, D.C. 20003
TEL: (202) 454-5182
CEL: (202) 905-7413
FAX: (202) 547-7392
Holman@aol.com

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