Politico reports:
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a watchdog group, has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Sarah Palin and the Republican National Committee claiming the RNC violated campaign finance laws when it paid for $150,000 for clothes for the party's vice presidential nominee and her family. Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director, said the purchases should be disallowed under campaign finance rules that prevent candidates from using campaign cash to buy items of "personal use," including clothing. Campaign finance experts say those rules have never been applied to party committee accounts.
While Politico merely describes CREW as a "watchdog", last year Roll Call exposed CREW as an organization funded by liberal money that almost exclusively targets Republicans. The group has gone after opponents of Big Labor, same-sex marriage, and the Castro regime. Read the whole Roll Call story, and you'll see that CREW has more than a few ethical blindspots and is about as nonpartisan as the DNC.