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A House Divided Against Itself; On the Money
Topic Started: Mar 12 2014, 12:05 PM (19 Views)
tomdrobin
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Super PACs, nonprofits fueling GOP strife → A Republican civil war is gathering steam as we head toward the 2014 midterm elections. Dave Levinthal at The Center for Public Integrity crunched the data and came up with a startling figure — in the first two months of this year, 20 percent of all the money spent on election advocacy came from conservative political groups attacking Republican candidates — a total of $2.3 million. That was even more than Republicans spent bashing Democrats. This blood feud, according to Levinthal, “represents a dramatic shift in political strategy from the same block of time during the 2010 midterm elections, when conservative organizations didn’t spend cash attacking GOP hopefuls at all…” The aggressors range from tea party groups to establishment-minded, candidate-specific conservative committees.

An Encore for the Center to Protect Patient Rights → Last October, a controversial and secretive “dark money” nonprofit group called the Center to Protect Patient Rights was fined by the IRS for not reporting the source of $15 million it funneled into efforts to block a tax increase and weaken union influence in California. The group, part of the Koch brothers network, is one of the largest political nonprofits in the country. The CPPR was back in the news last week under a new identity – American Encore. According to Robert Maguire at Opensecrets.org, the group re-branded just in time to sign its latest name to a letter asking Congress to kill a proposed IRS regulation that would clarify and strengthen the line of political engagement that CPPR, itself, had crossed. According to reporting by The Washington Post’s Mattea Gold, this proposed IRS regulation has received upwards of 143,600 comments from watchdog groups, trade associations, First Amendment attorneys, unions, think tanks, legislators and citizens.


http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/10/on-the-money-a-house-divided-against-itself/
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