What’s good for the [Crossroads GPS] is good for the [VoteVets]

If this post doesn’t make as much sense as it should, it’s because my boys at Boys State decided to talk to girls out the window after midnight last night, and after the State Cops chased the girls off, I got to deliver a ridiculous and completely un-heartfelt butt chewing to them for doing what they should get achievement medals for. Also, I am listening to the Governor candidates for Nationalist Party give horrible speeches that are at ridiculous Debbie Wasserman-Shutz decibel levels.

Nonetheless, I love this article in NYT so much, I want to cuddle with it after reading it.

The lawyer for President Obama demanded on Tuesday that Crossroads GPS disclose its donors, saying in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that the group is plainly a “political committee” subject to federal reporting requirements.

In the complaint, obtained by The New York Times, Robert F. Bauer, the campaign’s chief counsel, writes that the group — founded by Karl Rove, among others — can no longer shield the identity of its donors by defining itself as a “social welfare” organization.

“Crossroads seems to believe that it can run out the clock and spend massive sums of money in this election without accounting for a trace of its funding,” Mr. Bauer wrote in the complaint, filed Tuesday. “Now, a federal appellate court has issued a ruling that makes clear that Crossroads is out of time.”

The case Mr. Bauer cites is “Real Truth About Obama v. FEC,” in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the government must determine the “major purpose” of groups like Crossroads.

In a letter to Mr. Rove and Steven Law, the president of Crossroads, Mr. Bauer urges them to immediately disclose their donors.

Amen Mr Bauer! You speakum troof to power!

I join Mr. Bauer in detesting all these political expenditures by the 1% that are unreported and unattributable. Which is why I am going to take his complain (which you can read here) and just do a find/replace between Crossroads GPS and VoteVets. Both are 501(c)(4)s and neither apparently do anything vaguely charitable or educational except trying to elect members of their chosen political power.

Need proof, go reread Jonn’s post from about a week ago about how Jon Stoltz (name intentionally misspelled) who thinks it is diabolical that Romney got student deferments, even though a year and a half ago they were spending almost all their money electing a similarly dispositioned Harry Reid.

Category: Politics