The reform community is out in force, registering by letter with the FEC a wide-ranging protest: against the way Commissioners were awarded their posts, and against what most have done (or not done) with those posts once confirmed.  The letter proposes a short-term change, by an act of Presidential will, in the appointments process, and it restates a comment to statutory reform consisting of replacing this agency with another. 

     The letter explains why the reform community abstained from participation in the ongoing rulemaking to revise agency procedures, and it questions why the agency has taken up this project before completing old ones, like McCain-Feingold rules, that the courts, answering a reform community demand, have ordered be rewritten.

    More to follow.

Bob Bauer