Muckety mover - FEC declines to fine violator

The Federal Election Commission has overruled its counsel’s recommendation to fine a U.S. Chamber of Commerce group accused of illegal spending to attack Democratic VP nominee John Edwards in 2004. The party-line vote to reverse a counsel’s recommendation is highly unusual. “The FEC has transformed itself from a merely dysfunctional agency to one that now openly thumbs its nose at the law,” said Paul Ryan of the Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group.

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