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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Breaking rules, Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank Files as a 501 (C)(3) Organizatons but creates another Group to Spend BIG $ Lobbying

Breaking rules, Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank Files as a 501 (C)(3) Organizatons but creates another Group to Spend Large sums of Money Lobbying, while Giving Current seated Senator Mitch McConnell a Salary and Retirement Fund « Frederica Cade's Blog:

Breaking rules, Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank Files as a 501 (C)(3) Organizatons but creates another Group to Spend Large sums of Money Lobbying, while Giving Current seated Senator Mitch McConnell a Salary and Retirement Fund

Political activity Section 501(c)(3) organizations are subject to limits or absolute prohibitions on engaging in political activities. Interesting, that’s all the Heritage Foundation does. The Heritage Foundation lists itself as a 501(c)(3) organization. How does a group that is really not supposed to be involved in politics and limited form lobbying create a tax-exempt 501 (C)(4) group under your foundation to lobby in the hopes you can get away with lobbying when you doing it in the past years ago befor you even created a this group in 2009? The