In 2004, a Federal Election Commission complaint by a Washington, DC based group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, alleged that Mr. Roeser illegally funded a series of attack ads against Barack Obama who was running for U.S. Senate against Alan Keyes.
For the first time, Betzdorf, Frisange, Lorentzweiler, Roeser, Sandweiler, and Remich had populations over 3,000 each, meaning that their elections were held by proportional representation.