DNC To File FEC Complaint Against McCain

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told reporters today that the DNC will file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission Monday over Sen. John McCain's recent letter to the FEC informing them that he is withdrawing from the public financing system for his presidential campaign.

"We are in this complaint to the FEC asserting that the senator and his campaign are still bound to the conditions by matching funds including the spending limits of approximately $56 million dollars," Dean said.

McCain and his campaign have vigorously disputed that assertion in light of a recent letter from FEC Chairman David Mason to the McCain campaign stating that he cannot formally withdrawal from the system until the FEC obtains more information regarding the terms of a $4 million loan his then cash-strapped campaign obtained last year as well as a formal vote from the commission, which would require an approval from four of the six members on the panel.

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