As the Wash. Post notes "the FEC has been unable to do much of anything." We need to Fix the FEC.
Submitted by crew on 29 April 2008 - 9:35am. Fix the FEC Mitch McConnellToday's Washington Post takes note of several new complaints filed with the FEC. More importantly, the Post reports that nothing can be done with those complaints until we fix the FEC, which is why CREW launched FixTheFEC.org:
All the complaints highlight a problem that the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is now attempting to spotlight with its new website, Fixthe FEC.org.
With the senate in a prolonged stalemate over how to proceed on President Bush's nominations to fill four vacancies on the six-member commission, the FEC has been unable to do much of anything with these and other complaints. It takes four votes of the commission to rule on complaints, but the FEC has only two members.
"In the midst of the presidential campaign season, the Federal Election Commission has been rendered ineffectual," said the CREW's executive director, Melanie Sloan, in a statement. "Incredibly, the FEC cannot address any complaints against presidential candidates or a series of public financing questions. With no one on the watch, who's to say some unscrupulous souls won't violate the law in order to gain advantage in an election? Once an election is over there is no unseating the winners, whether or not they played by the rules."

