It’s a free country, damn it, and the FEC ought to quit hasslin’ John McCain.
That, at least, is the shorter version of the letter the McCain campaign’s lawyer Trevor Potter (a former FEC chairman himself) sent the FEC yesterday. In the letter, Potter argued that the campaign didn’t need the FEC’s say-so to opt out of the public financing system. As the AP reports:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=178329