FEC chair who sought to regulate Drudge slams colleagues as ‘dysfunctional’

The chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission is slamming her colleagues on the way out, calling them “dysfunctional” and unable to compromise.

“My year as chair has taught me even more clearly just how dysfunctional the commission is, and how our dysfunction is harming the democratic process in this country,” Chairwoman Ann Ravel wrote in an opinion piece for the California blog “CalBuzz” on Monday.

Since assuming the chair’s position in January, Ravel has pursued an ambitious regulatory agenda that includes stricter regulation of campaign spending, eliminating some of the commission’s members, and, as noted by the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard, new controls over online political content on outlets like the Drudge Report, Google and Facebook.

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