MUR #6696

RESPONDENTS: Crossroads GPS; Barbour, Haley; Crosby, Caleb; Law, Steven; Rove, Karl

COMPLAINANTS: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; Sloan, Melanie; Mezlak, Nicholas; Markley, Jessica

SUBJECT: Disclaimer; Reporting

DISPOSITION: The Commission decided by a vote of 6-0 to: 1. Close the file. 2. Send the appropriate letters.
The Commission failed by a vote of 3-3 to: a. Find reason to believe that Crossroads GPS violated 52 U.S.C. § 30104 (formerly 2 U.S.C. § 434) as a political committee that failed to disclose the communications at issue in this matter in its disclosure reports. b. Find reason to believe that Crossroads GPS violated 52 U.S.C. § 30120 (formerly 2 U.S.C. 441d) by failing to provide the appropriate disclaimer on the communications at issue in this matter.
The Commission failed by a vote of 3-3 to: a. Find no reason to believe that Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies violated 52 U.S.C. § 30104(c)(2) and 11 C.F.R. § 109.10(e)(1)(vi). b. Dismiss in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion the allegation that Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies violated 52 U.S.C. § 30104(c)(1). c. Close the file as to Steven Law, Karl Rove, Haley Barbour and Caleb Crosby. d. Approve the appropriate letters. e. Close the file.
Tthe Commission failed by a vote of 3-0 to: 1. Find reason to believe that Crossroads GPS violated 52 U.S.C. § 30104 (formerly 2 U.S.C. § 434) as political committees that failed to disclose the communications at issue in this matter in their disclosure reports. 2. Find reason to believe that Crossroads GPS violated 52 U.S.C. § 30120 (formerly 2 U.S.C. § 441d) by failing to provide the appropriate disclaimer on the communications at issue in this matter. 3. Direct the Office of General Counsel to draft an appropriate Factual and Legal Analysis. 4. Send the appropriate letters.