The IRS Scandal, Day 897

Daily Kos, Karl Rove's Newest 'Social Welfare' Group Spending Millions to Keep the Senate in Republican Hands:

If you're a regular Digest reader, you've seen reference recently to a new conservative group called One Nation that's been spending money to run ads on behalf of vulnerable Republican senators. The organization is not a super PAC but a 501(c)(4), a type of non-profit that is supposed to promote "social welfare" causes and cannot primarily engage in political activity. Unlike super PACs, these non-profits don't have to disclose their donors, and of course, the rules on limiting political activity are regularly flouted.

There had been talk in recent years about clamping down on these abuses, but after Republicans in Congress successfully mau-maued the IRS with trumped-up charges that the agency had unfairly targeted tea party groups, those enforcement efforts have collapsed. (One grotesque example: A North Carolina "social welfare" outfit called Carolina Rising spent 97 percent of its $5 million budget on ads to help Republican Thom Tillis defeat Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan last year.)

(Hat Tip: Ted Seto.)

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