But past and present Republican commissioners don’t believe publicizing the agency should be part of the FEC chair’s role and think it might have done more harm than good.
“Chair Ravel has been very public about her views, inviting questions about her impartiality through her public remarks concerning matters before the FEC and specific cases pending in federal court,” said Carolyn Hunter, one of the GOP members of the commission.
Brad Smith, a former Republican FEC chair, added: “No commissioner, I think, publicly accused their colleagues of simply refusing to enforce the law, and no one tried to use the commission as a vehicle for the personal political causes. The chair then talks about dysfunction. Heal thyself.”
