Americans Coming Together, the omnipresent leftists with the endless supply of money during the 2004 campaign, have just been slapped with the third largest FEC penalty in history. Per Roll Call:

The Federal Election Commission handed down its third-largest penalty ever on Wednesday, slapping liberal 527 America Coming Together with a $775,000 fine for violating federal campaign finance laws. During the 2004 election cycle, the group raised $137 million for get-out-the-vote and voter registration activities in 17 states. Of that total, the FEC found that only about $34 million raised by the group complied with federal fundraising limits. The bulk of the group’s contributions were limit-free, sometimes multimillion-dollar gifts from liberal financiers such as George Soros, Progressive Insurance founder Peter Lewis and the Service Employees International Union.

I can’t say I like these guys, but this is just another example of inane campaign finance laws run amok. We’ve almost made it a crime to be rich and spend money on politics.