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Posted at 2:32pm on Dec. 26, 2007 Senator Obama might have ulterior motives regarding the FEC?
Perish the thought.
By Moe Lane
I mean, just because the FEC is about to grind to a halt because Senator Barack Obama has objected to one of Bush's picks:
The potential for an FEC shutdown has been looming for weeks, as a handful of Democratic senators voiced opposition to one of Bush's nominees to the commission, Hans A. von Spakovsky. Their concern stemmed not from von Spakovsky's work on the FEC but from his tenure in the Justice Department's civil rights division.
His critics contend that von Spakovsky advocated a controversial Texas redistricting plan and fought to institute a requirement in Georgia that voters show photo identification before being permitted to cast ballots.
"I am particularly concerned with his efforts to undermine voting rights," Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said in a statement released in September after he placed a hold on von Spakovsky's nomination. Obama and others gathered more opposition to von Spakovsky's nomination by drawing civil rights advocates into a lobbying effort for its rejection. They attracted the involvement of a number of groups, including the NAACP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, that typically would not be engaged in a battle over an FEC nomination.
...with the result that the GOP has decided to follow suit in blocking the Democratic nominees, which means that there won't be a quorum starting January 1, which means that candidates looking for federal matching funds may find themselves increasingly strapped for cash, which includes former Senator John Edwards, which means that Obama, who is not accepting federal matching funds, has found himself somehow in the situation where his most important rival for the anti-Hillary Democratic vote is facing a long, slow financial strangulation.
What an amusingly serendipitous coincidence!
Read on.
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