Liberals gone wild: Meet the CREW crew

Has the day of reckoning finally come for the George Soros-funded Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)?

CREW is the liberal so-called watchdog group that delights in making lofty pronouncements about its nonpartisan status but still manages to attack a lot more Republicans than Democrats.

Election campaigns can be downright nasty and rancorous. That’s a given, but CREW far exceeded the bounds of fair play last year.

Its most brazen hatchet job in recent memory came during the last election cycle when it shamelessly smeared Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell (R-Del.).

Longtime Democratic operative Melanie Sloan, who is CREW’s executive director, unleashed a vicious barrage of lies last September against O’Donnell, a tea party favorite.

CREW filed a formal complaint with the Federal Elections Commission and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware, claiming the candidate had stolen money from her campaign accounts for personal expenses.

“Christine O’Donnell is clearly a criminal, and like any crook she should be prosecuted,” Sloan said in a press release.

“Ms. O’Donnell has spent years embezzling money from her campaign to cover her personal expenses. Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much these days, but both sides should agree on one point: thieves belong in jail not the United States Senate.”

The allegations were bogus. Last month U.S. Attorney Charles Oberly III threw out the CREW complaint.

O’Donnell’s campaign committee has asked Oberly to “commence an investigation against the head of CREW for knowingly filing a false claim, Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud amongst other pending charges.” The campaign argues that “CREW’s frivolous federal complaints” over the years “have cost numerous mostly Republican congressmen and candidates their elections, and caused their families untold harm.”

Would O’Donnell, who won an upset primary victory against then-incumbent Congressman Mike Castle (R-Del.), have won her contest in the absence of this calculated slander?

Since we don’t have a time machine we’ll never know.

Election law specialist Cleta Mitchell, who represents O’Donnell, said “the CREW complaint was nothing more than yet another partisan hit job” by Sloan.

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