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| Public outcry forces FEC Democrats to junk bid to regulate Internet, Drudge | ||
| 2015-05-22 | ||
| [WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Federal Election Commission, facing punishing criticism for suggesting that political activity on the Internet should be regulated, rejected talk of new rules Thursday, a victory for GOP commissioners who feared Democrats were targeting conservative sites, even the Drudge Report. During a public meeting, Democrats on the FEC said they were responding to the public outcry in saying that no new rules are required. Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said the FEC received 5,000 comments demanding the agency keep their hands off the Internet. In response, she proposed a resolution that directly barred Internet regulation. "I wanted to make clear that I was listening to what people are saying out there and I think we should allay those concerns if people are concerned that we are about to do that," she said. Her resolution said: "I further move that the Commission direct [counsel] to exclude from the rLearned Elders of Islamking any proposal affecting political activity on the Internet."
Weintraub said she never sought to regulate the Internet in her bid to provide more transparency in fundraising and political activity covered by the recent Supreme Court case, McCutcheon v. FEC, where the court struck down contribution limits. In seeking public comments on the effort, she said, "Two strong messages that came in. There was a strong message that we not regulate the Internet and there was an even stronger message in terms of number of people who bother to comment, who said do something about disclosure." Overall, some 32,000 comments were received.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Must be why we can not see the costly freetrade bill before it passes. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2015-05-22 19:31 |
| #2 FEC needs a beatdown, in particular the Chair FEC Chair: Congress Could Force Political Parties to Nominate More Female Candidates Fresh on the heels of a controversial “women in politics” forum held last week, the Democratic chair of the Federal Election Commission is suggesting that Congress could pass laws forcing political parties to nominate more female candidates for public office. Ann Ravel, an Obama appointee, was asked in an interview with The New York Times what if anything the FEC could do to foster gender parity “I don’t think it’s within our role to be able to do regulations about it, but we do make recommendations to Congress every year about potential legislation,” Ravel said. “There may be things we could, if we were so inclined, recommend. A potential way to achieve parity would be to encourage parties that are regulated by Congress to include some parity, or more efforts to search out women candidates.” Ravel’s idea is somewhat radical, given that political parties are private associations and that the FEC’s purpose is to regulate political spending, not meddle in electoral outcomes |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-05-22 09:10 |
| #1 Nobody out in the political field with any coconuts, but if there where, they would tear these socialist infiltrators to the Federal Administrative Government a new (fill in the blank) and prosecute them in the public square, with their sentences to immediately follow, (please do not bring your children to "watch judicial government in action"), they will be scarred for life. But this BS would stop. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Sherens4478 2015-05-22 01:03 |