Opinion: Yang’s Possibly Illegal Giveaway Shows Why We Need a Working FEC
that his giveaway is “perfectly legal.” “That’s actually essentially a marketing function on behalf of the campaign,” he said in a recent roundtable with Politico. “And we’re simply paying you the thousand dollars just [so] you can tell your story, so you can think of them as a variant of like a marketing consultant or a paid employee.” Erin Chlopak, director of campaign finance strategy at the Campaign Legal Center, disagrees.
Had the FEC been functioning properly, Yang’s campaign could have requested an opinion on the legality of the pilot proposal, and the FEC’s opinion would either have killed an illegal proposal or The FEC has been dysfunctional for some time because of partisan deadlocks on issues such as dark money, which have led to low fines for clear violations of the law and an inability to investigate even major violations. But now, the commission has gone from dysfunctional to nonfunctioning. Legally dubious plans like Yang’s are the outcome.
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