As campaign money pours in, so do complaints

[ProSense]

Source: The Washington Post

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"The evidence that the Ruth Institute and the NOM Education Fund repeatedly stepped over the line into illegal activity is indisputable," said Joe Solmonese, the HRC's president. "Is the Ruth Institute nothing more than a front and funnel for NOM's political activities?"

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On Wednesday, for example, the watchdog groups Public Citizen and Protect Our Elections filed a complaint with the FEC alleging that the pro-Republican organization Crossroads GPS is violating federal campaign finance laws by claiming to be a nonprofit group rather than a political committee. A similar complaint was filed with the IRS earlier this month against Crossroads GPS, which was founded with the help of GOP political guru Karl Rove and is one of the leading spenders this year.

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According to the complaint, the Ruth Institute is listed as a project of NOM's Education Fund, which is incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit group, named for the portion of the tax code used for charities. Donations to such charities are tax-deductible, but the groups are prohibited from participating in political campaigns.

NOM has spent more than $200,000 in an attempt to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), but the Ruth Institute is supposed to steer clear of those efforts.


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101305944.html

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Public Citizen: FEC Should Investigate Crossroads GPS for Campaign Finance Law Violations

[TomCADem]

1. The Chamber and Other Corporate Political Groups Are Using The Shock and Awe...

...if everyone violates the law, then violating campaign laws becomes the new normal.

[Amonester]

2. republi-CONS don't want no 'stinking' big gobermint and it's LAWS

they want their obscenely profitable LAWLESS anarchy

and they will pay every corrupt judges they need to get away with everyone's cash they can get their filthy hands on

in their criminal minds, what R any set of LAWS good for? :grr:

[No Elephants]

3. Oh, sure they want big government. They want massive military/homeland security,

vigilant censors for broadcast media, criminalization of reproductive choice, if not homosexuality, arrest and deportation of every single undocumented Hispanic, etc. Plenty of laws and they don't care what enforcement costs. Balanced budgets are not their concern--unless and until Democrats want to spend for something other than Republican priorities.

Reasonable gun control, safe workplace, safe food supply, school lunch for poor kids--not so much.

It's not that they want small government and less spending AT ALL. That's only their bs propaganda. They simply have different--and often less human--priorities for government than do Democrats and do a very good job packaging that as low taxes and liberty.

No one should fall for the bs.

[No Elephants]

4. Here's hoping something is done.

[ProSense]

5. Federal Court Upholds Disclosure Law

Federal Court Upholds Disclosure Law