NRA Caught Illegally Funneling Donations To Republican Candidates

[KamaAina]

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/nra-caught-illegally-funneling-donations-to-republican-candidates/

The National Rifle Association, the notorious Second Amendment nonprofit that has become one of the three most politically influential groups in Washington, is apparently being used as a donation fundraising machine for the Republican Party. It is a clear violation of the campaign finance laws which desperately attempt to keep tabs on the billions of dollars that steadily engulf our democracy, eroding it away a little more every election cycle. With the upcoming 2016 election projected to see five billion dollars spent to sway American voters, efforts to keep the process transparent will be much more difficult and yet ever-more important, for the sake of our political integrity.

Yahoo News recently published a report exposing illegal transfers of funds from the NRA’s nonprofit to their lobbying group, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), and then to their PAC, the Political Victory Fund. The NRA has been soliciting donations from their members and then funneling the cash into the PAC, using funds which a member may have thought were for funding events but are now being put to use supporting a political candidate with whom he or she may not approve of, which is very illegal....

It should come as no surprise that one of the biggest pieces of the Republican propaganda/lobbying/fundraising machine is willfully ignoring the laws that govern its practices. It abuses its tax-exempt status to funnel millions ($37 million in 2014) to political campaigns supporting Republican Congressmen, who in turn keep any laws from passing that might help alleviate America’s epidemic of gun violence, which kills more than 30 people a day. The NRA’s recent mega-convention in Tennessee (sixteen acres of guns!) featured every single major and minor Republican presidential candidate (except Rand Paul, who they don’t like), giving the same tired prattle of Second Amendment rights and jingoistic paranoia about the threat of “Muslim terrorists”.

Their influence is a blight on American politics and their single-minded fanaticism contributes to millions of deaths every year. It’s about time they got caught doing something like this, and just goes to show how the Republican political machine does business- under the table and in the dark. Now if only someone would do something about it.

I'm shocked. Shocked!

[ZM90]

1. So NRA actually stands for National Republican Association? n/t.

[onehandle]

2. The NRA is a Republican Super PAC and should always be identified that way. nt

[SunSeeker]

10. Exactly right. nt

[Kingofalldems]

3. Yes but they have gun safety classes! So we should all be quiet.

[randys1]

26. exactly

[villager]

30. That's certainly what their trolling acolytes here would tell you

over and over again...

[olddots]

4. don't wait for this on TV news

or radio .This should be huge but the turd meisters rule .

[Duval]

25. Thom Hartmann had a segment focusing

on this today. You can go to Thom Hartman.com, if you don't have dish or directTV. We watch him on Free Speech TV, and we have Dish Network. But, you're right. It won't be discussed (most likely) in our MSM.

[Scuba]

5. IOKIYAR

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. Now days it's only illeagle if they get punished.

Just ask the banksters.

[mmonk]

7. +1

[Myrina]

8. Disgusted and eyes rolled at a NRA license plate here in Indiana ...

"Teaching Freedom"

What a fucking hypocritical oxymoron. Emphasis on Moron.

But at least it warns other drivers who not to pass, flip off or tailgate on, lest they get 2nd Amendment'ed.


https://www.google.com/search?q='indiana+nra+license+plate'&biw=1280&bih=862&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMIsa-gpPO1yAIVCVQ-Ch0uRgNC#imgrc=2OJ5kT9UgxUcMM%3A

[99th_Monkey]

9. So when are the NRA perps going to jail again? I missed that part.

In my civics classes, they told me "illegal" meant that perps went to trial, and if found guilty,
would go to jail.

I guess that was a mis-print in the text-book?

[branford]

12. If the allegations are justified, the NRA will have to pay a mild financial penalty.

Of course, they'll use their perceived persecution to fund-raise exponentially more money than the designated penalty.

[perdita9]

11. MSM obsesses over Hilary's emails and misses this

Today's journalists are a national joke

[packman]

13. Of course they are -

was there any doubt?

[nykym]

14. if you are a registered Democrat

and you have an NRA membership.
You should cancel it immediately.
Or are you content supporting Republicans?

[silverweb]

17. Exactly right!

[SunSeeker]

15. $37 million sounds like a conservative estimate.

But it is still a lot more than the mere $984,152 the NRA actually reported giving to politicians. And it does not include the $3.36M the NRA reported it spent on "lobbying" nor the $28.2M it reported as "outside spending."


https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000082

[silverweb]

16. Pull their nonprofit status. Now!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]They're obviously just a lobbying group for gun manufactures and have violated the terms required for a nonprofit organization.

On edit: On top of that, they get part of their funding from the Koch machine and, legal or not, that makes them a public enemy:
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch

[davidpdx]

46. Agreed

But the IRS is too timid to investigate them because they'll get threats from gun nuts. The FEC is a joke as well.

[silverweb]

49. All too true.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Anyone who thinks we're not yet living under oligarchic control needs a reality check.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. Wonder if Boehner has been passing out the checks.

[workinclasszero]

19. The NRA abuses its tax-exempt status to funnel millions ($37 million in 2014) to

teahaddist political campaigns.

Yeah that's shocking right?

No wonder every insane nutbag mass killer can get his very own AR-15!

[workinclasszero]

20. Im sure the House will get an investigative committee

on this right away.

Well as soon as the Hillary Clinton witch trial is over.

[KamaAina]

22. Which one?

BENGHAZI!!!1!!1!!!? Emails? Vince Foster?

[workinclasszero]

24. IKR?

Those house teahaddists always busy doing the will of the people koch bros.

[Angry Dragon]

21. pond scum

'insert pic'

[Turbineguy]

23. I wonder how they decide how much to give

like $1 for every gun death to selected congressmen?

[LiberalArkie]

27. Please, Please, Let it be, I promise to be a good boy and say my prayers at night.

[TygrBright]

28. Change the law!! This should be LEGAL! Because freedom! Guns! Etc.! ::sarcasm:: n/t

[ibegurpard]

29. The NRA is not a gun organization

It's a right-wing shakedown squad.

[Gumboot]

31. And also a terrorist group.

Just sayin'...

[sinkingfeeling]

32. Wheres the $5 million Seect Committee to investigate this?

[stillwaiting]

33. #Rick'sCafe nt

[Bradical79]

34. Ok, so will anything be done about it? -nt

[Enthusiast]

35. Criminal fucks.

[valerief]

36. So the NRA will get a sternly worded letter, I suppose.

No repercussions?

[progressoid]

37. And a tsk tsk tsk as well.

[lpbk2713]

38. Sucks to be caught red handed.

They'll just take the usual GOP way out of it.

Deny everything and point their gnarly fingers in every direction but at themselves.

[Octafish]

39. It's what makes fast track really work.

Needs the best grease: cash.

[Unknown Beatle]

40. I posted this earlier in another thread, but it's more apt to be in this thread instead.

[patsimp]

41. Since they are republicans - they are above the law.

[turbinetree]

42. Really............................

lets revisit the good old Nixon years and his criminality for the Committee to Re-elect the president and his cronies when it came to milk, for starters and ITT and that slush fund, and now that they (republicans) are in charge----------don't hold your breath-----------------there is not going to be an investigation

[SleeplessinSoCal]

43. Is there an update to this revelation dated 4/15?

I'd love to see what if any action was taken.

[TheFarseer]

44. I'm most shocked to find that there are campaign finance laws

I though pretty much anything was legal at this point.

[Lunabell]

45. nra

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[Mendocino]

47. Whenever there is a mass shooting

they make money, the lobbyists make money, the gun and ammo manufacturers make money. While I wouldn't go so far as that they have a hand in it, they certainly don't mind when it happens. They just count the $$$$$.

[jimmy the one]

48. Nutty Rightwingers Armed

NRA = nutty rightwingers armed

Wayne Lapierre-Head = vice president for life
Ted Nugent = chairprick of the board