PEROT SUES 2 POLITICAL PARTIES' PANELS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Ross Perot's Reform Party sued the campaign committees of both major political parties Wednesday, saying they evaded election law and unfairly competed during the 1996 presidential race. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , also claims the Federal Elections Commission has been ineffective and biased against third parties since its formation in 1971. The suit said both Democrats and Republicans, confident of inaction by a toothless FEC See forward error correction. FEC - Forward Error Correction , flouted federal restrictions in 1996 presidential campaigns on the use of ``soft money'' contributed by corporations and labor unions labor union: see union, labor. . The FEC has been unable ``to protect the rights of members and supporters of minor parties and the campaign organizations of minor parties,'' the suit said. The suit also challenges a federal law that provides less federal campaign funding to minor parties than to major parties and a law that requires aggrieved ag·grieved adj. 1. Feeling distress or affliction. 2. Treated wrongly; offended. 3. Law Treated unjustly, as by denial of or infringement upon one's legal rights. individuals to file a complaint with the FEC - composed of three Democrats and three Republicans - before going to court. Speaking at a news conference, Perot said the nation has been ignoring the scope of campaign finance illegalities. |
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