Crossroads GPS likely broke election law, FEC staff concluded

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Post

The legal staff of the Federal Election Commission concluded in a just released document that Crossroads GPS, a non profit organization backing conservative causes, likely violated campaign finance rules.

The law department’s 2012 conclusion, first reported by the Sunlight Foundation on Tuesday, shows the FEC staff’s reasoning in recommending an in-depth investigation of Crossroads GPS, which was founded by Karl Rove and others in 2010.

The recommendation, released quietly by the FEC on Friday afternoon, will have no effect on the organization because the FEC did not act on the lawyer’s recommendation. The Commission deadlocked 3-to-3 when considering the proposal last December.

The six-member panel of commissioners is split ideologically, a divide that has stymied its ability to take action on many major campaign finance issues in recent years.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/crossroads-gps-likely-broke-election-law-fec-staff-reports-concluded/2014/01/15/15af18b6-7d73-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html

[RoccoR5955]

1. Question...

Does this mean that Turd Blossom will do a frog march?
I would pay good money to see that!

[leftyohiolib]

2. blah blah blah and nothing will happen

[mikeysnot]

3. IOKIYAR...

and Acorn was destroyed for doing nothing wrong. Well I guess enfranchising poor people is bad in some peoples eyes...

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[JustAnotherGen]

5. My first thought too . . .

So does this mean Congress gets to find a way to defund something they don't currently fund? Because IIRC - they just voted yet AGAIN to defund something that doesn't exist anymore . . . thanks to wrong doing and false accusations from Right Wing Wingnut electioneering groups.

[hobbit709]

4. Likely my ass. They did but they won't do anything about it just like nothing was done to the banks.

[bigworld]

6. Solution? Disband Crossroads and start up a new one for the next election cycle.

There's no repercussion for lying or playing dirty tricks politics.

[ronnie624]

7. Even when the meager campaign finance laws *are* broken,

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there's not a damned thing that can be done about it. No other political system on earth, has ever been as blatantly corrupt. I mean it is right there in the open, for every one in the world to see. How do the screeching partisans participate in this vile process with so much confidence? Just look at the amount of money that is used to purchase the system, and never for he good of the country, only to advance the cause of power and avarice.

How frustrating. Why should anyone give a shit anymore?

[louis-t]

8. And this surprises who?

or is it 'whom'?

[herding cats]

9. One single donation received by the group in 2012 was for $22.5 million.

Crossroads GPS and an affiliated super PAC were some of the biggest forces in the 2012 election cycle. Crossroads GPS pulled in $208 million, according to tax filings. Its sister organization, the super PAC American Crossroads, raised $117 million.

Big money donors don't want their names connected with their buying of politicians. Which explains why the "ideologically" split panel of 3-3 will not be acting on the recommendation. Our system is broken because the Supreme Court also suffers from such an ideological split which set the stage for the current corrupt system. The question is, where do we go from here?