Okay… so that’s not really what the six wise men and women of the Federal Election Commission said in dismissing a complaint filed by the bombastic Florida Rep. Alan Grayson.
In any event, the FEC made public a finding that the Commission has “no reason to believe” that any aspect of Grayson’s frivolous complaint about a political opponent had any bearing in fact or law.
For those unfamiliar with this spectacle, back in December Grayson asked Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute a woman who formed a website and a political committee to criticize the freshman Democrat, as CCP Chairman Brad Smith noted in a blog post:
Republican activist Angie Langley has started a PAC called the “My Congressman is Nuts Committee,” which set up a website to chronicle Rep. Grayson’s colorful statements and activities, ”MyCongressmanIsNuts.com.” The site also allows you to make contributions to the PAC, which it spells out will be used to try to defeat Rep. Grayson next fall.
Now Rep. Grayson has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, asking Holder to prosecute Langley and the My Congressman is Nuts Committee. Grayson argues that the name is false since it implies that Langley lives in Grayson’s district (she does not), and the PAC has misrepresented itself in its FEC filings. Grayson has also filed a complaint with the FEC.
The FEC “found no reason to believe the respondents violated the Act because, even if proved to be true, the allegations regarding fundraising under false pretenses and misrepresenting the committee as supporting or opposing more than one candidate would not constitute violations under the Act. The Commission also found no reason to believe that the Committee was falsely misrepresented as a non-connected committee.”
The case is Matter Under Review 6238.
