WASHINGTON The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center filed a Federal Election Commission
complaint against Big Tent Project Fund, an anti-Bernie Sanders group that sought to stifle his chances in the 2020 presidential election but according to the complaint failed to register as a PAC or publicly disclose its donors as required by law.
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Erin Chlopak of the Campaign Legal Center said that this âis yet another example of the agencyâs dysfunction and its disregard for the campaign finance laws it was designed to oversee.â
The Campaign Legal Center on Wednesday filed suit against the Federal Election Commission, charging that the regulatory agency has failed to enforce the law against a group that spent millions of dollars on advertisements targeting key voters and opposing 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Though Sanders ultimately suspended his second presidential campaign and endorsed President Joe Biden, the Vermont Independent’s impressive finish in the Iowa caucuses and victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary were immediately followed by the formation of the Big Tent Project in mid-February 2020.