New Republican FEC commissioner nominee, same old smears from the opposition

This month, President Trump nominated Texas attorney Trey Trainor to fill a Republican seat on the Federal Election Commission. Predictably, so-called “reform” groups went ballistic.

Issue One, a group that advocates for taxpayers to pay for politicians’ campaigns and for one-party control of the currently bipartisan FEC, claimed there are “serious concerns as to whether he will be fully committed to enforcing the law.” Noah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, similarly complained that Trainor’s appointment would make it difficult for the FEC to “enforce reasonable campaign finance laws and rules.”