Bush campaign asks court to force action on soft-money groups

[Nambe]

The Associated Press

President Bush's campaign asked a court yesterday to force the Federal Election Commission to act on the campaign's complaints about anti-Bush groups that are spending millions of dollars in the presidential race, arguing that the FEC is failing to do its job.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, the campaign argued that the FEC is taking too long to address what the campaign calls illegal spending of corporate, union and big individual donations to influence the presidential race. The lawsuit seeks a preliminary injunction that would force the commission to act on the campaign's March complaints within 30 days. After that, the campaign could sue to block the groups' activities through court action rather than relying on the FEC. ..

Josefiak said that if the court and the FEC both move quickly, the campaign could get action before Election Day and curtail the soft-money groups. ..

"Four years ago when a 527 established by his Texas pals was viciously attacking Senator McCain, President Bush thought that was a fine thing," Jordan said. "Now that he's been on the receiving end of some tough ads and his campaign's own ties to the Swift Boat group have been uncovered, he's found religion."

The FEC said yesterday that it opposed the lawsuit.

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[librechik]

1. don't let these criminal bullies remove freedom of speech!

Those ads are there to level the playing field between the big money dependent Repuglicans and ordinary citizens. Support the FEC!

[GRClarkesq]

2. Bush flipped on the 527s and CFR as a favor

to his new best friend, John McCain.

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=792828