ProPublica - "How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and Call it Public Welfare"

[TomCADem]

It is one of the miracles of the corporate media and that billionaires and 501(c)(4) dark money groups like Karl Rove's Crossroad's GPS can be portrayed as the "victims" with "journalists" refusing to question Darrell Issa about the exploitation of 501(c)(4) status to avoid campaign disclosure laws. The real corruption is in the mainstream media and their willingness to whore for thier corporate sponsors.

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-nonprofits-spend-millions-on-elections-and-call-it-public-welfare

Matt Brooks describes the mission of the Republican Jewish Coalition as educating the Jewish community about critical domestic and foreign policy issues.

But the well-dressed crowd that gathered in May for a luncheon on the 24th floor of a New York law firm easily could have figured that the group had a different purpose: Helping Mitt Romney win the presidency.

Brooks, the group's executive director, showed the 100 or so attendees two coalition-funded ads taking aim at President Barack Obama. Then Brooks made a pitch for a $6.5 million plan to help Romney in battleground states, reminding guests that their donations would not be publicly disclosed by the tax-exempt group.

"Contributions to the RJC are not reported," Brooks told the people sitting around a horseshoe-shaped table. "We don't make our donors' names available. We can take corporate money, personal money, cash, shekels, whatever you got."