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Conservative Groups Ask Supreme Court to Stop Calif. AG From Demanding Names, Addresses of Donors

Conservative Groups Ask Supreme Court to Stop Calif. AG From Demanding Names, Addresses of Donors

By:  Michael W. Chappman

Fifty-eight organizations, most of them non-profit groups that promote conservative ideas, filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief with the Supreme Court this week, asking it to hear a case about whether donors’ names and addresses must be revealed in order for such groups to register and operate in California.

The petitioners, led by American Target…

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IRS Documents: Renegade Tax Agency Used Donor Lists to Steer Audits

IRS Documents: Renegade Tax Agency Used Donor Lists to Steer Audits

By: Tom Fittin

Judicial Watch has released more blockbuster documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that confirm that the IRS used donor lists of tax-exempt organizations to target those donors for audits.

The documents also show that IRS officials specifically highlighted how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce may come under “high scrutiny” from the IRS. We forced these records out through a…

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How the hell is it legal for Newt Gingrich to hock people's personal information like that? Secondly, do politicians do this kind of thing often? It's all quite disturbing.

» SFB says: Looking through the site where Newt brokered his donor lists, Rudi Guiliani and Tim Pawlenty did the same thing. As does Americans for Prosperity, a leading Tea Party group. And if you bought a copy of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" through NewsMax? They're straight-up selling telemarketing lists for that. It's actually not unlike what magazines do. Ever subscribe to a magazine and notice an uptick in junk mail weeks afterward? That's why. (In fact, one of the big issues news outlets have with the iPad is that this information, a reliable income source, is not made available to them.) What makes Newt's case strange and more disturbing is that he's doing it while he's on the campaign trail. Usually it doesn't happen until after the campaign is over. — Ernie @ SFB

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Fading fast? Newt Gingrich selling donor lists to stay in the 2012 race

$4.5M the amount of debt the also-ran GOP candidate, who's trying to stay in the race, currently has

$135 the amount Newt is charging for 1,000 names off his 193,963-strong major donor list

$50 the amount Newt is charging for 1,000 names from his 388,210 small donors source

» Wanna buy some donor information? Newt's gotten so desperate to pay off his significant debts that he's now selling a key element of his campaign on a TMA Direct, a direct-marketing brokering firm. You can buy the names yourself if you'd like — large donors over here and small donors over here. Anyone want to chip in $5 into a pot to buy some small donors?

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