FEC Sues Club For Growth
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Now this is suspicious.
AP reports here http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050919/ap_on_go_ot/fec_political_lawsuit_2 :
Federal election officials on Monday sued a political group to try to force it to comply with campaign finance limits, the first lawsuit of its kind to arise from controversial big-money fundraising during the 2004 elections.
The Federal Election Commission filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington against the Club for Growth. The pro-Republican group spent at least $21 million in the 2003-04 election cycle.
The FEC contends the Club spent enough in federal races to require it to file with the commission as a political committee and abide by contribution and spending limits. It wants the court to fine the group and to order it to comply with campaign finance rules.
Club for Growth President Pat Toomey called the FEC lawsuit "a bizarre interpretation of the Club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations governing nonprofit organizations."
"The Club's principal purpose is to advocate for and defend pro-growth policies," Toomey said in a written statement. "We have consulted with counsel every step of the way and have followed the law and regulations that govern our work."
FEC Vice Chairman Michael Toner called the case "one of the most important suits the commission has brought in recent years."
"At stake is whether Club for Growth will be able to continue raising and spending millions of dollars in soft money for activities influencing federal elections," said Toner, a Republican...
Isn't the Club for Growth the rabble-rousing Republican organization that hunts RINOs? Isn't it the same group that Senator John McCain, R-Arizona, has scathingly criticized because it has been scathingly critical of him?
Does anyone else out there sense that this is the Republican establishment trying to stick it to those trouble-making conservatives?
McCain/Feingold will die a glorious, flaming death when it becomes apparent to Americans that neither Congress nor the Supreme Court has any interest in defending our right to free speech when it relates to criticizing or campaigning against our Illustrious Overlords.
Everything that brings attention to the unbelievable unconstitutionality of this act brings us closer to the day when it goes away. And as a bonus, it gets us another day closer to a Supreme Court that doesn't believe our founding document is alive.
Once again, the "conservative" justices come closest to getting it right, described more fully here. One of the best quotes by Thomas (you know, the mental lightweight that the left hates):
"the Court today upholds what can only be described as the most significant abridgments of the freedom of speech and association since the Civil War."
Thanks for the encouraging words, fellas. The Club for Growth is merely the first in a long line of political organizations that the FEC is going to attack. This is not partisan politics. They want to stamp out our right to speak out about our government and the politicians who seek to retain their Kung Fu grip over power.
The quicker people realize that, the quicker we can come together and fight this thing. And the blogosphere is the perfect place for us to lock arms.
Andy Roth
Director of Government Affairs
Club for Growth
Our court system is one of the best in the world. All we need now is for some one to watch the judges and get them in trouble when they do something wrong. The only problem is that that would take the power away from the judges. Good and bad. And that commitee would need a committee to watch over it. We would end up with something like the hight council in soviet russia. Not good. We just need better judges. All the conservitives don't want to be lawyers it seems, so the liberales get this job. This is not a good thing. We need some way to make the judges adhear to the constitution. not make up their own rules.
Thank god it got the soft money out of politics! Thank god it made it illegal for citizens to speak during elections (unless you're Michael Moore advertising "Fahrenheit 911")! Thank god the courts did the right thing and upheld CFR! Thank god the American left (which insists there's a right to everything) hasn't started protests against CFR!
I wonder if the peaceniks will mention how John McCain and the left stole our freedom at the Peace Protest Sept 24. Somehow I doubt it.....