Crossroads GPS likely broke election law, FEC staff concluded
By Tom Hamburger and Matea Gold, WashPost, Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 12:25 PM
The legal staff of the Federal Election Commission concluded in a just-released document that Crossroads GPS, a nonprofit organization backing conservative causes, likely violated campaign finance rules with its political spending in the 2010 mid-term elections.
The law department’s 2012 conclusion, first reported by the Sunlight Foundation on Tuesday, shows the FEC staff’s reasoning in recommending an in-depth investigation of Crossroads GPS, which was founded by Karl Rove and others in 2010.
The recommendation, released quietly by the FEC on Friday afternoon, will have no effect on the organization because the FEC did not act on the recommendation. The commission deadlocked 3 to 3 when considering the proposal in December.
The six-member panel of commissioners is split ideologically, a divide that has stymied its ability to take action on many major campaign-finance issues in recent years.
(More here.)
The legal staff of the Federal Election Commission concluded in a just-released document that Crossroads GPS, a nonprofit organization backing conservative causes, likely violated campaign finance rules with its political spending in the 2010 mid-term elections.
The law department’s 2012 conclusion, first reported by the Sunlight Foundation on Tuesday, shows the FEC staff’s reasoning in recommending an in-depth investigation of Crossroads GPS, which was founded by Karl Rove and others in 2010.
The recommendation, released quietly by the FEC on Friday afternoon, will have no effect on the organization because the FEC did not act on the recommendation. The commission deadlocked 3 to 3 when considering the proposal in December.
The six-member panel of commissioners is split ideologically, a divide that has stymied its ability to take action on many major campaign-finance issues in recent years.
(More here.)
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3 to 3 split, seems very likely to me. In fact, I bet if they looked hard enough it probably was due to a silly film maker or perhaps Bush.
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