Anti-Hillary Clinton Group Refuses to Change Name, Defying FEC Order

Wall Street Journal ^ | June 11, 2015 | By BYRON TAU

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Federal Election Commission, which is tasked with enforcing campaign finance law, has ordered the Stop Hillary PAC to cease incorporating Mrs. Clinton’s name in its own or face penalties.

At issue is a federal rule barring independent groups from incorporating or using the name of a candidate for federal office in their own names. The rule is designed to protect voters from mistaking independent groups such as PACs and super PACs with official campaigns.

Dan Backer, a lawyer for Stop Hillary, argues that the word “Stop” in the committee’s name already precludes any confusion and that no supporter of Mrs. Clinton would mistakenly send a donation to a group called “Stop Hillary.”

“It is hard to fathom who exactly it is that is so lacking in basic concepts (perhaps not even knowing what the definition of ‘is’, is?) that to them the use of the verb ‘STOP’ immediately preceding the clear object to be stopped, ‘HILLARY’ demonstrates anything other than clear opposition to that object,” Mr. Backer wrote to the FEC.

[Mr_Moonlight]

There are a LOT of people named Hillary, Doesn’t the FEC know this?

Exactly ... the PAC could be in reference to a rival group of mountaineers seeking to stop Sir Edmund from arriving at the peak of Everest first .......