The Federal Election Commission chose to ignore the billionaire George Soros’s funding of MoveOn and other liberal groups and instead target a grass roots organization. Interestingly the first lawsuit is against an organization that has criticized Senator McCain on many issues. If there’s any remaining doubt that McCain-Feingold was really intended to further entrench big money interests in politics, this should put it to bed.
FEC Sues Pro-Republican Political Group
Federal election officials on Monday sued a political group to try to force it to comply with campaign finance limits, the first lawsuit of its kind to arise from controversial big-money fundraising during the 2004 elections.