Law violations claimed in Nader's Oregon campaign

A longtime Portland community activist plans to file a complaint accusing an anti-tax group and the President Bush and Ralph Nader campaigns of violating federal election law in an effort to put Nader on the Oregon ballot. "The process Nader has started to get on Oregon's ballot is out of control," said Ellen Lowe, who announced at a Portland news conference Tuesday that she would file a complaint Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. Lowe's complaint claims the Bush and Nader campaigns and Citizens for a Sound Economy broke federal election laws by coordinating an effort to get Republicans to attend the meeting to help ensure Nader a spot on the ballot, presumably to draw votes from presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry and help Bush. [more]