Yesterday, CREW and Tennessee citizen Barbara Kaye Ginsberg filed an FEC complaint against the campaign committee of Rep. Marsha Blackburn. Today, The Memphis Commercial=Appeal covered the complaint:

A Washington watchdog group and a Germantown constituent have filed a complaint against U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn's campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission.

Barbara Kaye Ginsberg, 68, a retired homemaker and a resident of the 7th Congressional District since 1977, jointly filed the complaint with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, citing "serious violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act."

In April, Blackburn announced that she was revising most of the campaign finance disclosure reports she had filed since first seeking office in 2002 because she had failed to report $286,278 in expenditures and $102,044 in contributions.

Blackburn campaign spokesman Darcy Anderson responded to the complaint in a prepared statement: "Rep. Blackburn, in holding her campaign to a strict ethical standard, self-initiated a reconciliation of her campaign accounts. The reconciliation confirmed that all funds were properly raised and properly spent. She is confident that FEC review of those records will agree with this assessment."

Ginsberg was awaiting surgery and was unavailable for comment Wednesday, but her husband, David, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, said she approached CREW because "she just felt like she wanted to do something to deal with corruption in high places."

Also, The Nashville City Paper weighed in: 

A Washington, D.C.-based good government group filed a complaint Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission alleging Congressman Marsha Blackburn’s campaign and her treasurer violated federal campaign finance law.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said Blackburn (R-Brentwood) violated campaign finance law through failing to report more than $100,000 in contributions and about $286,000 in spending dating back to 2002.

“Given the Blackburn campaign committee’s longstanding pattern of filing inaccurate FEC reports and the large amounts of money involved, the FEC should step in, investigate the committee and sanction it appropriately,” said Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director, in a statement.