Transparency advocates this morning excoriated the Federal Election Commission for what they called increasingly lax oversight of campaign finance as the country barrels toward what is expected to be the most expensive elections in history next year.
The advocates, including nonpartisan watchdogs Democracy 21, Public Citizen and the Campaign Legal Center, said the FEC has repeatedly failed to issue new regulations clarifying aspects of a Supreme Court ruling last year allowing companies and other organizations to spend unlimited amounts on elections.
“It’s an extraordinary disaster on top of an extraordinarily disastrous Supreme Court decision,” said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21.
via boston.com
