One year after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, grant makers need a much more powerful response to the continuing spread of right-wing extremism. That should include more direct funding of political organizations and candidates and a less exclusive focus on organizations with charity status.
think they would have been better off. well, i m not sure of the facts yet because i still believe are you sure you re right about this, that mostly they were the tea party and patriot groups? it was mostly. i ll tell you why, chris. it s because after the tea party became a big a big deal in the united states, there were hundreds if not thousands of tea party organizations. it was a decentralized movement. yeah. but if you put party in your name or something that sounds political, it s reasonable to expect that the irs will interpret it as a liberal organization. john, if you re right, the ig was wrong. that s not the ig s report. the ig s report was there s bias here. they targeted improperly the right wing groups. i m not saying they were targeted properly. i don t like the way they handled this. it needs to be put in its context. quickly, chris, in 2010, crossroad gps, karl rove s organization, made a filing, an official filing to the irs where they said that thei
they targeted improperly the right wing groups. i m not saying they were targeted proper ly. it needs to be put in its context. quickly, chris, in 2010, crossroad gps, karl rove s organization, made a filing, an official filing to the irs where they said that their activities did, quote, did not constitute prime their organization did not constitute primarily a political effort. that was materially false. they then spent $70 million trying to effect the outcome of the 2012 election. so when people make false representations to the irs, which many of these tea party and other groups you re making a case, but that s not the point. the problem is the i.g. came out with a report, the white house saw it coming. the president could have gotten ahead of it and pointed the finger at the irs and said this is wrong.
rather than having it leak, i think they would have been better off. well, i m not sure of the facts yet because i still believe are you sure you re right about this, that mostly they were the tea party and patriot groups? it was mostly. i ll tell you why, chris. it s because after the tea party became a big a big deal in the united states, there were hundreds if not thousands of tea party organizations. it was a decentralized movement. yeah. but if you put party in your name or something that sounds political, it s reasonable to expect that the irs will interpret it as a liberal organization. john, if you re right, the ig was wrong. that s not the ig s report. the ig s report was there s bias here. they targeted improperly the right wing groups. i m not saying they were targeted properly. i don t like the way they handled this. it needs to be put in its context. quickly, chris, in 2010, crossroad gps, karl rove s organization, made a filing, an official filing to the
that s all he is doing. andrea: if you compare the fundraisers he did with president bush, i doesn t compare. all he has been doing is fundraising. look, i agree. it s still so early. the g.o.p. field, it s split. how many names are on it? eric: your $35 million number where did you get it? bob: the $35 million, total what they reported so far. eric: did you include the rnc? bob: no. eric: did you include groups like crossroad gps? american crossroads who combine the two groups alone have $35 million. exclusively to g.o.p. bob: let me explain something to you. i can t tell you about oil funds that you know but i can tell you about campaigning. that is money they can t control. the rnc is controlled by the presidential candidate. look at the republican the latest questio quinnipac poll. romney leads with weak 25%.