In the latest sign of partisanship on the Federal Election Commission, a top Democrat and former chair of the nation’s elections umpires has put herself in the anti-NRA, anti-Donald Trump, and anti-Koch Brothers camp with her retweets.
Ann Ravel, who has mocked the partisanship of Republicans on the FEC, on Wednesday featured the Koch and NRA tweets and on Saturday resent a photo of the controversial Trump tweet that featured a Star of David.
The Koch tweet she recycled said, “Rich old white dudes want you to know they are just like the black civil rights protesters of the 60s.” It drew attention to a judge’s decision that the Kochs feel like civil rights leaders whose views were assailed in the 1950s.
A second drew attention to a tweet from California Rep. Jackie Speier that read, “Standing with gun violence survivors to tell @SpeakerRyan: @NRA-sponsored bills are not the way to #DisarmHate.”
And last weekend, Ravel retweeted the Trump controversy over replacing the Star of David with a circle.
Ravel has led the FEC Democrats in pushing for wider enforcement of fundraising and elections laws and has claimed that the Republicans on the FEC are thwarting action.
“What’s really going on,” she told the New York Times last year, “is that the Republican commissioners don’t want to enforce the law, except in the most obvious cases. The rules aren’t being followed, and that’s destructive to the political process.”
Republicans on the commission have succeeded in stopping effort by Ravel and others to target conservative media, the latest bid being a vote to punish Fox News and its handling of GOP debates.
The California Democrat also uses her Twitter account to advocate for more elections policing, especially on fundraising.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
