The Campaign Legal Center is up in arms over President Obama's nomination of John Sullivan for a seat on the Federal Election Commission. Jabbing at Obama's campaign slogan, the organization released a statement last Friday calling Sullivan "not the change we need."

"Mr. Sullivan has bashed important elements of McCain-Feingold and repeatedly taken radical deregulatory positions," said center Executive Director J. Gerald Hebert, in a press release.

Sullivan is a veteran labor lawyer. Most recently he served as the associate general counsel for the Service Employees International Union. Citing various instances where Sullivan supported the deregulation of campaign finance laws, the center says it has deep concerns over whether he will effectively support the agency's mission of enforcing money-in-politics restrictions.

                                                                                                              -- Eliza Krigman