Mr. Grebe, IRS On Line One (Cognitive Dissidence)

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http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2012/11/mr-grebe-irs-on-line-one.html

Nonprofit Quarterly wrote about how the Bradley Foundation - led by Scott Walker's campaign chair, Michael Grebe - laundered money to the Einhorn Foundation to put up the racist voter intimidation billboards.

NPQ was quite clear and direct in their message that what Grebe and company did was a major ethical no-no (emphasis mine):

The Bradley Foundation has also been active in its support for combating voter fraud and voter impersonation (which nearly everyone but those who won’t look at the data knows is virtually nonexistent). Bradley’s support is evidenced by its attempt to give a $35,000 grant to True the Vote, an organization which we have written about a few times in the NPQ Newswire (see here and here). True the Vote had to return the money because the organization lacked 501(c)(3) status. Why give True the Vote a grant for election monitoring in 2011? Was Bradley unaware that it and its Tea Party parent organization, the King Street Patriots, lacked 501(c)(3) status, something that could have been determined simply by asking for their IRS letters?

Grebe says that the attempted grant to True the Vote had nothing to do with to the Walker recall campaign. Still, some see a partisan political cast behind the efforts to require voter ID or to “educate” voters about the penalties of voter fraud via anonymous billboards. That impression was perhaps furthered by the comments from a Republican state senator who alleged that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would have carried the Badger State had the courts allowed the state’s voter ID law to be implemented in time for Election Day.