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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday May 05 2015, @07:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the bureaucracy-at-its-finest dept.

The leader of the US Federal Election Commission, the agency charged with regulating the way political money is raised and spent, says she has largely given up hope of reining in abuses in the 2016 US presidential campaign, which could generate a record $10 billion in spending.

“The likelihood of the laws being enforced is slim,” Ann M. Ravel, the chairwoman, said in an interview. “I never want to give up, but I’m not under any illusions. People think the F.E.C. is dysfunctional. It’s worse than dysfunctional.”

Her unusually frank assessment reflects a worsening stalemate among the agency’s six commissioners. They are perpetually locked in 3-to-3 ties along party lines on key votes because of a fundamental disagreement over the mandate of the commission, which was created 40 years ago in response to the political corruption of Watergate.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 06 2015, @03:44AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 06 2015, @03:44AM (#179375) Journal

    In the first 24 hours after Bernie's announcement, donations to his campaign topped $1.5M. The average donation was $43.54.

    Who did they come from? I don't trust anything that doesn't have a documented source for the donation and a million undocumented small donations can more easily come from a single rich source than a million poor ones.