FEC logjam is over-- Von Spakovsky withdraws nomination!

[Aloha Spirit]

Thanks in part to Obama and Feingold, the FEC might have a working quorum within a month.
I hear thunder...

http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010821.html
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/breaking_spakovsky_withdraws_a.php
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBlCY

[Boz]

1. And McCain knows it, he started putting out a lobby registration sheet to all his people

Both corporate AND FOREIGN lobbyist within his campaign

[Aloha Spirit]

2. Yeah, I heard about that. Hmmm, this is pretty juicy end-of-newsweek news.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Thank you Senator Feingold and Senator Obama

for restarting open government

[Aloha Spirit]

5. Yep! This is one more thing you can mention to people when they say Obama has no accomplishments.

[Coexist]

4. WOO HOOOO !!!

OH HELL YEAH!!!

:bounce: :toast: :bounce: :toast: :toast: :toast:

[Alexander]

6. This is why Obama and Feingold need to be on the ticket together.

They are excellent open-government Democrats and they work together well.

[Aloha Spirit]

7. Huh, more interesting. I missed it, but last week the WH decided not to reappoint Mason, the FEC

Chairman who began the McCain investigation.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/the_politics_of_the_fec.php

[MagickMuffin]

8. Olbermann has been discussing this on his show, more than once

They made Worst Person in the World recognition, one day.

[MagickMuffin]

9. Yippeeee, Finally we've gotten rid of that racist.

And just in the nick of time.

[Aloha Spirit]

10. revealing quote about Republican strategy for the fall

this is more a "note to self" I guess

On the Republican side, many big dollar donors are not particularly enthusiastic about pouring millions of dollars into outside groups to help McCain, who has been a longtime critic of 527 organizations.

Cleta Mitchell, a campaign finance lawyer who advises such outside groups, said conservatives are not showing much interest in the presidential race, focusing instead on congressional contests and state judicial races.

"To be quite honest, these are grass-root activists and they're not all that enamored with McCain," she said. "This is what they say: 'We need to have as many conservatives as we can scrounge together in every other office because whoever is in the White House we'll probably be fighting with them on a lot of issues.'"

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBnT-Oimgt9TOfnkar4SgO3jUM_wD90N1VIG0