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Wisconsin Dems File Complaint With State Against David Koch
Eric Kleefeld February 23, 2012, 5:37 PM
The Wisconsin Democrats are taking aim at one of their biggest opponents in the states recall elections. No, not just Republican Gov. Scott Walker but conservative financier David Koch, and his organization Americans For Prosperity. But whether they will actually succeed in the latest front is another question.
Specifically, the Dems announced on a conference call with reporters Thursday that they were filing a complaint with the state Government Accountability Board, which oversees elections in the state, and also forwarding a copy to the Internal Revenue Service at the federal level. The complaint involves statements that Koch made to a newspaper and his organizations official non-profit, non-partisan status.
Were helping him, as we should. Weve gotten pretty good at this over the years, Koch told the Palm Beach Post in a profile story published this past weekend. Weve spent a lot of money in Wisconsin. Were going to spend more.
These organizations are a farce, said Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate, referring to AFPs 501(c)(3) status, as well as that of a state level conservative organization the MacIver Institute. This designation allows an organization to accept tax-deductible contributions and further provides that they are not required to disclose their donors, nor are they required to report their spending until after an election has taken place.
He further added: But to maintain this status, a 501(c)(3) is prohibited from engaging in activities which constitute participation or intervention in a political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to a candidate.
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New Yawker
(62 posts)and fined five billion dollars in damages that is unappealable.
That way, the Koch brothers will have no choice but to go out of business, permanently and start begging on the streets as they should be.
white_wolf
(6,238 posts)Point out that Fred Koch worked with Stalin's USSR.