FEC weekly journal was BLOCKED (unprecedented) by GOP. Topic is foreign election interference

[Roland99]

Last edited Sat Sep 28, 2019, 11:51 AM - Edit history (1)

Link to tweet

Joanne Freeman
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@jbf1755
Wow.

Yesterday the FEC chair tried to publish their weekly journal & was blocked. She says that’s unprecedented

It has a draft rule re: foreign election interference

So she tweeted the ENTIRE journal.

Just putting that here...@KevinMKruse@HC_Richardson

H/T @PoliticusSarah

Link to tweet

Ellen L Weintraub
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@EllenLWeintraub
Replying to @EllenLWeintraub @FEC
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This week, I published a “Draft Interpretive Rule Concerning Prohibited Activities Involving Foreign Nationals" on the http://fec.gov web site: https://www.fec.gov/documents/1796/mtgdoc_19-41-A.pdf

FULL THREAD
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1177719828632739842.html

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

[DENVERPOPS]

33. Coming into

Coming into the 2020 elections, the FEC has been totally paralyzed by the Trump/Republican administration.
I don't think they currently have any ability to even function, let alone guide and rule over the elections........

WASF

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Wow! Good for Ms. Weintraub!!!

[spanone]

3. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[bronxiteforever]

4. Kick and recommend.

[PatSeg]

5. True patriots are coming out of the woodwork

I predict an avalanche of courageous truth tellers in the upcoming weeks.

[Generic Brad]

7. And the complicit criminals are exposing themselves

The longer this goes on, the more will be exposed. It appears the entire GOP house of cards is collapsing in real time.

[PatSeg]

19. I really thought it would

come tumbling down sooner. So many pushed their luck for so long, it was hard to believe they were really getting away with it. All things said, I have to say it was worth the wait. I think we'll find more corruption than we'd ever dreamed possible.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Weintraub stood up to the Corruptor's Cabinet and Moscow Mitch

[onetexan]

6. Thank u ms. Weintraub!

[CaptainTruth]

8. I just saw her thread on Twitter. Good for her!!!

[mysteryowl]

9. Do you know who or how the GOP blocked it?

[blaze]

11. From the twitter link

GOP FEC Commissioner Caroline Hunter took the altogether unprecedented step of objecting to its being added to the Digest and blocked publication of the whole Digest as a result.

[mysteryowl]

13. Thanks for finding that. This smells of trump and the WH

The corruption of the GOP is deep and wide. There is much cleaning up to do of our federal government.

[magicarpet]

10. If you can help save our Democracy,...

.... do it now.

This house of cards build on a quick sand foundation is collapsing.

Help it along if you can - patriots.

[DENVERPOPS]

34. I don't think

I don't think that people understand that the next 15 months are going to decide the future of the US forevermore, and the whole world for that matter.........

WASF

[Jarqui]

12. K&R

Actions like this - fighting for the institutions of Democracy - are what will preserve Democracy.
Keep it comin'!

[mysteryowl]

14. I clicked on the links to add to the Internet traffic that these were viewed.

It is like my vote for democracy.

[majdrfrtim]

15. Another badass woman. Scaring GOP snowflakes.

Keep at it, Ellen!!

[Marcuse]

16. Definition of "Contribution"

9 The Act defines a contribution to include “any gift, subscription, loan, advance, or
10 deposit of money or anything of value made by any person for the purpose of influencing any
11 election for Federal office.” 52 U.S.C. 30101(8). “Anything of value” includes all “in-kind
12 contributions,” such as “the provision of any goods or services without charge or at a charge that
13 is less than the usual and normal charge for such goods or services.” 11 CFR § 100.52(d)(1).
14 The Act also defines “contribution” to include the “payment by any person of compensation for
15 the personal services of another person which are rendered to a political committee without
16 charge for any purpose.” 52 U.S.C. 30101(8)(A)(ii); see also 11 CFR § 100.54.

[Heron5]

17. Katyal weighs in

Neal Katyal tweeted about significance: Why FEC decn so impt: Trump DOJ secretly cleared him of criminal wrongdoing w Ukraine b/c claimed foreign campaign aid wasn’t a “thing of value.”
FEC, which has expertise in this, disagrees. We’d not even learned of doj jail free card w/out wblower. FEC is saying this is illegal.

[gademocrat7]

18. Ellen Weintraub is an incredible woman.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. They are working feverishly to fix the 2020 election. Especially if tRump is out. . . . nt

[meow2u3]

22. To the Greatest Page you go!

K&R with gusto!

[BootinUp]

23. Where are we on the Richter scale for TREASON?

[erronis]

24. Reading through the tweets the only negative one was from Stephen Hoersting, RW Federalist

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Stephen-M--Hoersting-joins-DB-Capitol-Strategies.html?soid=1103155979279&aid=suIf4A9RFRY



Stephen M. Hoersting brings campaign & litigation leadership to DB Capitol Strategies



Steve HoerstingThe rapidly changing campaign finance laws are already the dominant theme of 2012's "most-expensive-yet" election. DB Capitol Strategies is pleased to have Stephen Hoersting, an innovator at the cutting edge of campaign finance law, join our firm. Steve brings tremendous experience advising campaigns and advancing free-speech for political organizations to our team.



Steve co-founded the Center for Competitive Politics (2005 to 2011) where he devised speech-protective projects, including the legal architecture for SpeechNow.org v. FEC, litigated with allies at the Institute for Justice. Steve served as general counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee under then-chairman Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) from 2003 to 2005, where he advised 51 Senate offices and 34 campaigns in the first election under McCain-Feingold to help win seven of eight open seat races for U.S. Senator.



Steve also served as chief counsel to a vice chairman of the Federal Election Commission from 2000 to 2003, was a pre-publication commenter on John Samples' The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform, University of Chicago Press (2006) and a commentator and research assistant for Bradley A. Smith's Unfree Speech, Princeton Univ. Press (2001). He has published on campaign finance issues for the Cato Institute, the Election Law Journal, The Washington Times, Roll Call, The Weekly Standard and National Review Online; appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, CNBC's Street Signs and offered expert testimony on Capitol Hill.



Steve earned his J.D. from Capital University Law School, cum laude, in 1996, and a B.A. in economics from The Ohio State University in 1990. He is an alumnus of the Institute for Humane Studies and served as The Federalist Society's Publications Chairman for its Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group.



Connect with Steve at [e-mail]

[dchill]

25. K&R.

[Hotler]

26. kicking..... nt

[Botany]

27. "They" know that the fix has been in for sometime now ... including this mother fucker

[Sugarcoated]

37. So unsightly I actually flinched

[Six117]

28. This is worthy of the front page in every major newspaper.

NT

[Kid Berwyn]

29. GOP needs RICO

If ever there was a corrupt band of traitors...

[Volaris]

35. They might not rise to the legal definition of treason ,

But sure as hell they qualify as a 'corrupt organization' at this point heh..

[ffr]

30. Resist

[Roland99]

31. UPDATE - Added threadreader link to full thread in OP (and here)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1177719828632739842.html

[sakabatou]

32. The GOP must have something big to hide

[Beartracks]

36. I would think Giuliani's willy-nilly, unaccountable travel to certain suspect countries...

... to hobnob with high-ranking and/or elite persons should rightfully raise some eyebrows in the FBI and elsewhere.

Rank-and-file government employees aren't the only ones that can be compromised by foreign nationals looking to manipulate America.

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[JPK]

38. Speaking of Rudi

Where in the hell is he getting all this money to jet set around the world and stay in hotels, meals, etc.?

[jimlup]

39. I hate to say this but just think for a moment about how all of this plays ...

I honestly worry that we are headed from a cold civil war into a hot one and it may not be very long from now. I'm not even sure what it might look like. But at some point, the Trump thing, buoyed by his republican apologists and his Faux rightwing news network, will actually call out the military to defend his warped version of the law. At that point, we cross the threshold into a hot civil war.

[Roland99]

40. I think cooler minds prevail within the DoD

[jimlup]

41. one hopes

the military does have an obligation to disregard an unlawful order. I wonder who would make the call though if Trump is still the sitting PROTUS.

[handmade34]

42. ...

https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/mtgdoc_19-41-A.pdf

[handmade34]

43. and...

...FEC in free-fall. One week after Republican commissioner Matthew Peterson left the FEC—hamstringing the agency a year before the 2020 elections—Peterson is joining a DC law firm that has a legal specialty in so-called dark money. With Peterson absent, the FEC can’t take votes or make rules. This week, the FEC announced a proposed rule that would close a loophole authorizing campaigns to conceal their donations and expenditures in the final month of a campaign (which they achieve by switching their reporting from quarterly to monthly at the last minute). The FEC can take no action.

the entire piece is worth reading

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/06/sharpiegate-distracted-from-trumps-week-in-dc/

[progressoid]

45. Aw holy shit.

[Blue Owl]

44. Whoa!

Shit's gettin' REALS y'all!