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Related: About this forumIowa couple revealed as major funders behind anti-tax PAC
One little Iowa campaign finance mystery appears to have been solved.
Recent filings show that the major funders this year for Iowans for Tax Relief, a prominent political action committee and lobbying outfit, are none other than the groups chairman, David M. Stanley, and his wife, Jean Leu Stanley, of Muscatine.
David Stanley, an ultra-conservative former Iowa Senate majority leader, is an heir to the Stanley engineering consulting and office furniture fortune, reportedly one of the largest family fortunes in Iowa.
Iowans for Tax Relief, known as ITR, for years has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in anonymous donations from shadowy trusts called the American Freedom Trust, the Trust for Taxpayer Defense and the Iowa Public Interest Trust.
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20131113/NEWS01/131113004/Iowa-couple-revealed-major-funders-behind-anti-tax-PAC
Recent filings show that the major funders this year for Iowans for Tax Relief, a prominent political action committee and lobbying outfit, are none other than the groups chairman, David M. Stanley, and his wife, Jean Leu Stanley, of Muscatine.
David Stanley, an ultra-conservative former Iowa Senate majority leader, is an heir to the Stanley engineering consulting and office furniture fortune, reportedly one of the largest family fortunes in Iowa.
Iowans for Tax Relief, known as ITR, for years has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in anonymous donations from shadowy trusts called the American Freedom Trust, the Trust for Taxpayer Defense and the Iowa Public Interest Trust.
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20131113/NEWS01/131113004/Iowa-couple-revealed-major-funders-behind-anti-tax-PAC
Can't say I'm surprised.
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Iowa couple revealed as major funders behind anti-tax PAC (Original Post)
cyberswede
Nov 2013
OP
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)1. Money goes to the money.
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)2. No surprise there
The Stanleys have long been an "anti tax" group. Except they don't really want tax cuts, at least not for me. Just for them.
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)3. Well, government isn't for the little people. Right?
2.5% of the people in the US losing their crap health insurance are now for the first time in their lives getting help from the GOP (Guardians Of Privilege). The GOP wants to make sure they have to keep their crap health insurance.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)4. probably some of that money they stole from their own family
I guess I should say allegedly.
That was pretty much what everyone suspected anyway.