Posted on 03/15/2015 5:15:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last week, the Democratic party website Media Matters hired long time Clinton family friend and advisor James Carville to write for the site. This is just the latest in a series of moves made by the Democratic party organ to boost the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.
But, as the Washington Examiner points out, Media Matters is a tax exempt organization, prohibited by law from engaging in political activity. The site is run by another Clinton confidante, David Brock, and the website hasn't been shy about defending Mrs. Clinton in this latest scandal over her emails.
Media Matters has published more than 40 blog posts and videos rebutting widespread and bipartisan criticisms of Clinton.
Just one problem: Brock's organization is not allowed to campaign for political candidates.
Media Matters is classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3), exempting the organization from having to pay federal taxes. "Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office," read the IRS's rules governing such organizations.
Clinton has yet to begin her formal campaign for president. But she is expected to announce her candidacy within weeks, and there does not appear to be a clear line — or in fact, any line — between her interests and the advocacy work of Media Matters.
"There are two issues here," said Alan Dye, a lawyer specializing in representing nonprofit organizations and political committees, in an interview with the Washington Examiner media desk. "One is campaign intervention. That is, activity that affects an election."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Lois will get right on that.
The feds are the problem. The author is asking the questions way down the line from that.
/johnny
Well, I guess it’s okay for them because they’re liberal; it’s just not okay if you’re a conservative.
I believe that’s what the IRS attacks were all about; proving that very point.
I think you answered your own question.
If I’m notistaken, MM was created by Hillary and Soros.
HilLiaRy has bragged that she is a founder of Media Matters.
Wasn’t the question answered in the headline?
Because LAWS simply no longer apply, where elcting Democrats is concerned.
This isn’t new, it’s been this way since at least 2004.
And it has been that way for the Clintons forever.
Apparently laws don’t apply to democrats.
John Koskinen will get to the bottom of this - our sleazy government at work - picking sides - protecting liberals.
And they wonder why we don’t trust them.
The title answers its own question
I’m sure the unprosecuted felons at the IRS will get right on that...
Why does Media Matters get away with it?
Because politicians let them.
Just like black churches.
They sre like a dog. They do it because they can (and get away with it because they are Dems).
because George Bush.
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