Two Campaign watchdogs want IRS to probe Rove's American Crossroads

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Campaign watchdogs want IRS to probe Rove's American Crossroads
By Jordan Fabian - 10/05/10 12:10 PM ET


Two campaign finance watchdogs have asked the IRS to investigate a conservative group backed by Karl Rove.

Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center argue Crossroads GPS, a conservative group spending heavily in this year's campaign races, is violating tax laws meant to limit political activity by non-profit groups.

In a letter to the IRS, the groups said Crossroads GPS and its sister group American Crossroads is using its tax-exempt status to improperly keep its donor list private.

"In our view, Crossroads GPS is a classic example of a 501(c)(4) organization that is impermissibly using its tax status to spend tens of millions of dollars in the 2010 congressional races while hiding the donors funding these expenditures from the American people," Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer said. "The IRS cannot sit idly by and ignore what is going on without enormous damaging consequences to the interests of the American people and to the integrity and credibility of the tax laws."

Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads have launched ads in seven key Senate races in Missouri, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio, Kentucky, California and Pennsylvania. The groups are also on target to raise $52 million by election day, the Associated Press reported last month.

Crossroads GPS was established in part by Rove, President George W. Bush's main political strategist and adviser, and Ed Gillespie, another Bush adviser and former head of the Republican National Committee.

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1. Laws don't apply to rove

and republicans. It's in the constitution according to Roberts and Scalia.

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2. I think the likes of Rove

would have every legal angle already worked out to the Nth detail.

That's NOT a defense, its an observation that if there is a legal loophole/sanction they will exploit it to its fullest advantage.

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3. I'm hoping not; look how accurate he was, re: 06 elections.

He's not infallible.

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4. I have alwys thought he is overrated

He won republican seats in the south as the republicans were taking control. Big deal. He lost the 2000 presidential election and did poorly in every other election. He is a media created star but not a results star.