Posted on 06/07/2013 8:56:08 PM PDT by Enchante
Which brings us to the curious point that even though OFA tweet in the name of the leader of the Democratic Party, they are legally a non-partisan organization. Figure out how that works.
The arms-length relationship between Obama and Organizing For Action is based on its legal status as a non-partisan organization. As Politico reported in February, the organization updated its guidelines to make that point clearly.
[The Atlantic Wire] “The organization on Wednesday quietly posted new guidelines on its website formally declaring its intention to stay out of campaign politics.
“Neither OFA nor its chapters will be involved in any way in elections or partisan political activity,” OFA wrote. “Its exclusive purpose is public policy advocacy and development, and in particular, both enactment of President Obama’s legislative agenda and the identification and advancement of other goals for progressive change at the state and local level.
They also have tax exempt 501(c)4 status. I don’t suppose they had to wait 29 months for approval from the IRS, had their donor list leaked, or faced letters with 90 questions?
OFA are an independent lobby group, that are also “non-partisanly” hosting a web-page calling Republicans names: http://my.barackobama.com/Hold-Climate-Deniers-Accountable.
I guess if they had convincing arguments they wouldn’t need to name-call?
Twitter has “verified” the BarackObama account, and you might ask what verified means anymore. Twitter says it is “used to establish authenticity of identities on Twitter”. As if it’s authentic for a team of people who aren’t Barack Obama to use his name, position and photo to send out partisan messages in an officially non-partisan way. Twitter, I don’t think this is going to work out well.
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Come again??? The President of the USA has his Twitter PR managed and performed by a dodgy outfit which is supposed to be non-partisan??? Doing PR for the so-called leader of the Democratic Party IS partisan by its very nature.
So the IRS can harass and obstruct truly independent groups if they seem at all conservative, but cannot notice that the campaign group which does PR for the President is getting 501(c)4 tax-exempt donation status!!??
This is dishonest “community organizing” on a national level, front groups allowed to operate in the shadows working on behalf of the Obama “legislative agenda” while pretending to be non-partisan in order to collect tax-exempt donations.
Sniff. I detect a double standard.
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