The AP is reporting that the FEC has filed suit against the Club For Growth:
Federal election regulators have taken a political group to court in what could serve as a test case for how the government will address complaints over millions of dollars in big contributions poured into last year's presidential race.
The Federal Election Commission filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington against the Club for Growth, the first case of its kind to arise from high-dollar fundraising during the 2004 elections. The pro-Republican group spent at least $21 million in the 2003-2004 election cycle.
The FEC contends the club spent enough in federal races to require it to file with the commission as a political committee and to follow contribution and spending limits. It wants the court to fine the group and order it to comply with campaign finance rules.
Pat Toomey, the club's president, called the FEC lawsuit "outrageous" and "a bizarre interpretation of the club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations governing nonprofit organizations."
The report goes on to mention the Desperate Delusional Dumped Daschle Disciples are behind the complaint that led to the action:
The FEC investigated the club's fundraising and spending after the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee complained to the commission about it.
The DSCC complaint stemmed from an ad the club ran in the 2003-04 election cycle against then-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., over his opposition to a tax-cut proposal. Daschle lost to Republican John R. Thune in last November's election.
But SDP is reporting how the Daschle gang is using their campaign money for other candidates:
Ex-Senate Dem leader Tom Daschle's new PAC, New Leadership for America, will help him maintain his post-Hill influence in politics, according to advisers. Through DASHPAC and on his own, Daschle has donated/helped to raise more than $500K for Dems across the country, including large donations to the WV and ND Dem parties. But Daschle has no plans to run for office anytime soon. DASHPAC is being shuttered; the new PAC is being built on top of Daschle's old campaign committee, but it's being given a new coat of a paint, a new name, and a new, multi-candidate purpose and FEC designation. Daschle political adviser/ex-manager Steve Hildebrand: "The first and primary purpose for this new PAC is to aggressively help progressive candidates run for public office. To contribute to them, to foster their candidacy, to encourage support from others" (Hotline reporting).
Daschle wants to support so-called "progressive" candidates, but as I have said before, their ideology is not progressive. They are the far-left secular socialists that stand against the ideology of the Founding Fathers. His PAC should instead be called "New Leadership for Marxism".
