Thursday, August 14, 2008
J-Mac gets a breather, although...
- "...the lawyers also concluded in a separate opinion that McCain needs an affirmative vote of four commissioners to withdraw from the program, which McCain had asserted was unnecessary.
- That could set the stage for the first real partisan FEC battle since a new commission was confirmed this summer, since the commission is comprised by statute of three Republican members and three Democrats.
- If Republicans got the sense they couldn't attract a single Democratic vote to approve the lawyer’s recommendation releasing McCain from the system, however, they could vote against the lawyer’s recommendation that McCain needs four votes to withdraw, killing that proposal and possibly allowing McCain to withdraw unilaterally.
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