Norquist Non - Profit, Not - Really !!! - Boston Globe

[WillyT]

Reason #432 For A DU Friday News-Dump Crew!!!

Special Interests Aided Tax-Reform Advocate
A range of groups funded Norquist
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | March 31, 2006

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WASHINGTON -- Grover G. Norquist has become one of the nation's most influential activists by portraying his group, Americans for Tax Reform, as the leading ''grass-roots taxpayers movement," which gets thousands of politicians to sign a pledge against any new tax. Behind the ''grass-roots" activism, however, is a multimillion-dollar donor list that is the envy of Washington. And the Massachusetts native has always refused to name his financial backers.

But interviews and copies of Norquist's donor lists, obtained by the Globe, show that contributors include an array of special interests ranging from tobacco companies to Indian tribes to a Las Vegas casino.

The biggest surprise is Norquist's largest individual donor: Richard ''Dickie" Scruggs, a Democratic Mississippi trial lawyer, who contributed $4.3 million. Scruggs had received a $1 billion fee in the landmark tobacco case against the same tobacco companies that were also Norquist's donors. Scruggs, like the tobacco companies and some other leading donors, was interested in more than lifting the burdens of the taxpayer. He said he had his own agenda: He wanted Norquist to work to defeat a congressional proposal that he feared would confiscate most of his $1 billion legal fee in the tobacco case.

''I paid a lot of money," Scruggs said. ''I thought that was the way the game was played."

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Much More (For example, Norquist has received $1.5 million from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, which runs a major casino...): http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/03/31/special_interests_aided_tax_reform_advocate/


How does the acronym FRINDA work for Friday News Dump Alert, LOL???

:silly:

[madrchsod]

1. nordquist is a con man

just ask some people in the town where i live and ask the government agency in charge of ronny reagans home..

[WillyT]

2. Apparently...

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But by working through tax-exempt organizations, Norquist does not have to disclose donors; this has made it difficult to track whether he's acting on behalf of contributors. That has led critics such as former US senator Warren Rudman, Republican of New Hampshire, to say that Norquist's foundation is a ''front for lobbying activities."

''He really lobbies for clients, although they don't call them clients," said Melanie Sloan, head of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. ''He will lobby for those who have made contributions."

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Same article.

Nice work, if you can rig it.

:shrug:

[shenmue]

3. I *hate* that little s.o.b.

What a smug prick.

I can't wait for the day he and the rest of Americans for Tax Evasion goes to jail.

[Octafish]

4. Norquist and Abramoff are an item.

Thanks for the heads-up on the Boston Globe article, WillyT.

Grover the turd runs in the same circle jerks as Jack Abramoff.



The Pimping of the Presidency

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1969

[WillyT]

5. Anytime, Octafish !!!

:hi:

[ShortnFiery]

7. They're scum, but creative in their selfish money grabs. eom

[Wilms]

6. K&R n/t