Once again, the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (TREF) is going after conservative organizations while shielding establishment GOP lawmakers.
At their July meeting, board member Tom Lawless called an investigation of two conservative groups conducted by the Attorney General’s office “not worth the postage they used to send it” and later called Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s reluctance to allocate time and resources to TREF investigations “repugnant and reprehensible.”
He had previously made his unfavorable opinion known regarding the AG’s five-month investigation into whether Sumner County and Tennessee Constitutional Republicans groups had acted as political action committees (PACs).
“I think we need to create and do our own investigation through issuing subpoenas and submitting the questions,” Lawless said early in the TREF meeting. “Let’s get ‘em all in here and let ‘em talk.”
