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Originally Posted by wutitiz
As far as I can tell the Sunlight Foundation is a left-leaning group. The current president, a guy named Christopher Gates, is the former chairman of the Colorado Democratic party. I imagine he'd be surprised to be described as "right wing lunatic."
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It wasn't an official statement by the Foundation, it was a statement made by an individual who belongs to the foundation, and he was speculating. The Foundation isn't left wing-- it's supposed to be non-partisan. That's the whole point.
The right wing media frequently takes statements out of context and blowing them up to be larger than they actually are, so I'm not going to pass any judgments.
On the other hand, if they do actually find corruption, it won't surprise me. Charities are a well-known tax loophole for the rich, so it makes sense that they would have been using it in that capacity... but whenever I have stated this on this board, the right wingers have gotten indignant about me picking on charities.
If this actually helps people to realize that such loopholes exist and points people towards candidates who will try to close them along with other loopholes, that's great. But something tells me that the takeaway from this is just going to be 'liberals bad conservatives good'.
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