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To: haqihana who wrote (23425)	2/15/2002 6:38:57 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) of 59480

Look at this: FEC Appeals Ruling Blocking Release of Records on Democratic Activities With Unions By Sharon Theimer Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 15, 2002 WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal election regulators Friday challenged a court ruling that bars them from releasing documents showing Democrats coordinated campaign activities with labor union donors. The Federal Election Commission said it will appeal a December ruling by U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordering it to withhold thousands of pages from the case from public view. The commission contends much of the information about its inquiry into political coordination between the Democratic National Committee and the AFL-CIO is already in the public domain, and citizens have a right to examine the documents. Kessler, siding with the AFL-CIO and Democrats, said there must be a claim of illegal activity for the court to consider revealing the names of union officials involved in the investigation. The FEC's practice of disclosing information from its investigations "carries with it a real potential for chilling the free exercise of political speech and association guarded by the First Amendment," the judge wrote. The DNC and the AFL-CIO contended most of the records contain proprietary information, including employees' names and details on campaign strategy. "We're sticking to our guns," DNC spokeswoman Maria Cardona said Friday. "We believe it's completely appropriate to keep confidential and private deliberations, especially on campaign strategy, private and confidential - for any party." The Associated Press reported in July that the documents showed AFL-CIO representatives served on state party steering committees to help approve or reject Democratic campaign activities. The FEC began investigating the coordinated campaign activities in the 1996 elections after Republicans complained that the union illegally spent up to $35 million to help Democrats, working too closely with the party on ads and other campaign activities the money financed. The commission ultimately determined that the ties between the DNC and the AFL-CIO were close but legal. It cited a federal court decision that set a stricter standard for illegal coordination. The FEC routinely releases documents from closed cases. In all, the commission planned to release at least 36,000 pages from the DNC case. --- On the Net: Federal Election Commission: fec.gov Kessler ruling: dcd.uscourts.gov AP-ES-02-15-02 1758EST

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