Obama appoints top Labor Union lawyer to head Fed Election Committee (and 3 more to come…) - what major reforms can we expect?
Sullivan, an associate general counsel at the Service Employees International Union, would usher in a new era of more rigorous enforcement of campaign rules at the FEC, others blasted it as step towards loosening the rules.
Sullivan is an expert on voting rights issues who helped Al Gore during the 2000 presidential recount and Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire during the 2004 Washington state gubernatorial recount.
“This decision was made very, very quickly,” said Holman of Public Citizen. He worked closely with Obama’s U.S. Senate office, has met with Eisen twice since Obama’s election and got a personal heads-up Friday from the White House lawyer that the Sullivan nomination was coming.
If Sullivan is confirmed by the Senate, he would take the seat of Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, who continues to sit on commission even though her term expired two years ago.
On Friday, the terms of two other commissioners also expired – Steven Walther, who was tapped by Democrats, a