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babylonsister

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Thu Feb 23, 2012, 09:01 PM Feb 2012

Wisconsin Dems File Complaint With State Against David Koch

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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 state’s 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 organization’s official non-profit, non-partisan status.

“We’re helping him, as we should. We’ve gotten pretty good at this over the years,” Koch told the Palm Beach Post in a profile story published this past weekend. “We’ve spent a lot of money in Wisconsin. We’re going to spend more.”

“These organizations are a farce,” said Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate, referring to AFP’s 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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Wisconsin Dems File Complaint With State Against David Koch (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2012 OP
Hope the complaint is sustained New Yawker Feb 2012 #1
Want to turn the Teabaggers against the Kochs? white_wolf Feb 2012 #2
Teabaggers don't have a clue who Stalin or the USSR was. nt babylonsister Feb 2012 #3
 

New Yawker

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1. Hope the complaint is sustained
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 09:05 PM
Feb 2012

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.

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