anything that would suppress the vote. now what you re seeing is moving throughout the south. but it s also moving into states like wisconsin and other places where there are republican governors who now see an opportunity to depress the vote among minorities, among young people and among those who are likely to vote democratic. what s karl rove s gps cross roads gps. how is that different than any other pac? well, it s different. first of all, it s different because it can take unlimited amounts of money. and it s also anonymous. it s anonymous. so people can run money through there in any amount. what you get on the finance disclosure, you get nothing. what you get in the tax disclosure as what you were looking at earlier is anonymous donor. person. democrats actually have some persons like that. there just respect as many persons like that in the democratic party giving money.
to the question here about hypocrisy. it begins, better bring identification and not just any identification if you plan to vote in republican controlled state. however, if you contribute tens of millions of dollars to sway an election on a republican s behalf, the party will try to keep your identity a secret. look at this from cross roads, gps. look at that $18 million contribution. who s it from? person. just person. meanwhile if you want to vote in the state of texas, something that is your right, you better be able to identify yourself by producing driver s license, military i.d., gun permit. but not a student i.d., of course. one of ten registered voters lack an i.d. steve mcmahon is a democratic strategist. i want to start with the overall notion here.
look at this from cross roads, gps. look at that $18 million contribution. who s it from? person. just person. meanwhile if you want to vote in the state of texas, something that is your right, you better be able to identify yourself by producing driver s license, military i.d., gun permit. but not a student i.d., of course. one of ten registered voters lack an i.d. steve mcmahon is a democratic strategist. i want to start with the overall notion here. just to make it simple, steve, for everybody watching. why would the republicans want to make it hard to vote but easy to give money secretly? well, if you make it hard to vote for african-americans and hispanics, then of course democrats get fewer votes and republicans might be able to win more elections. if you make it easy to hide the money which republicans also like to do, then you have wealthy republican businessmen like the koch brothers and
so tell me about the letters. who were they sent to and when were they sent? there were multiple letters whether al frannen, chuck schumer and five of their democrat colleagues in the senate wrote in february of 2012 and then again in march 2012 asking the irs to crack down on what they said political organizations who were set up as 501-c-4s. and we it though who they were targeting. they were americans for prosperi prosperity, cross roads gps, other tea party related organizations. it even goes back to 2010 where senator max baucus started to request the irs look and investigate these organizes. and in fact the wording they were using was calling for investigations. so in february 2012, you had chuck schumer and al franken saying does the irs plan to investigate or are they investigating these 501-c-4s. so within can say wasn t the irs doing exactly what senate democrats asked them to do.
association, et cetera. the 501 c-4 is a specific nonprofit known as social welfare groups think civic leagues and local volunteer fire departments which according to the irs function merely for the purpose of betterment and social improvements. unlike their cousins, however, c-4s may engage some some political activities, this is according to the irs, so long as that is not their primary activity. it s a marquee definition that s given c-4s a whole lot of wiggle room to play politicses. c-4s are attractive because they re tax exempt and mostly because they allow donors to remain anonymous. they ve become the vehicle of choice for dark money flowing into influence elections allowing liberals to carl rhodes cross roads gps to shield their donors and get a little tax