Free market advocacy group the Citzens Club for Growth has agreed to pay an FEC fine, according to Associated Press reports:
A conservative, free market group that worked on behalf of Republican candidates in the 2000 and 2004 elections has agreed to pay $350,000 in civil penalties for failing to register as a political committee.The Federal Election Commission said the Citizens Club for Growth spent $1.28 million during the two election cycles advocating the election or defeat of federal candidates. The FEC said the committee acted as a political committee that should have publicly reported its contributions and expenditures.
The case has been pending as a federal lawsuit brought by the FEC against the organization. The agreement, if approved by a federal judge, would mark the end of the lawsuit.
Read the rest at the link above. Again, the inability of the FEC to enforce campaign spending laws in a timely fashion underlines the ineffectiveness of those laws. This case covers the group's activities up through the 2004 elections.
The BCFRA and other campaign spending laws have become a bad joke.
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