Republican Party
Chairman J.R. Romano said the Connecticut
Democratic Party’s attempts not to comply with the subpoena are “disturbing”
and “disheartening.”
“It’s disheartening
that Connecticut
Democrats are literally doing everything they can to not answer to a regulatory
agency. It’s frightening. Why even have rules?” Romano said.
The Connecticut Democratic
Party is trying a different approach to avoid complying with a subpoena issued
by state election regulators by asking a court to end the State Election
Enforcement’s investigation into a mailings sent
during the 2014 campaign.
It’s the
second lawsuit filed against the State Elections Enforcement Commission by the
Democratic Party. The first
was an administrative appeal filed on May 27. In that lawsuit, the Democratic
Party argued that the SEEC should rule on whether federal election law preempts
state election law when it comes to the mailers featuring Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Assistant
Attorney General Maura Murphy Osborne filed a motion to
dismiss the administrative appeal on July 23. She argues in that
motion that the Democratic Party can’t challenge the SEEC’s
decision not to provide a declaratory ruling because it’s not a “final
decision.”
The lawsuit
served Monday on the SEEC is similar to the one filed on May 27.