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Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts) Thu Jun 28, 2012, 12:25 AM Jun 2012

NFIB, Plaintiff In Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Obamacare, Refuses To Disclose Donors

Source: huffingtonpost

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NFIB has bankrolled the high-profile lawsuit, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, which the Supreme Court is set to decide with two other health reform cases on Thursday. In turn, it appears, the organization received large donations from undisclosed sources. And while the word "independent" is in the organization's name, NFIB's multimillion-dollar independent expenditures and campaign donations have benefited almost exclusively Republicans.

When asked to disclose its donors on Wednesday, NFIB spokeswoman Jean Card told The Huffington Post in an email: "We are not required to do so by law."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/nfib-supreme-court-obamacare-donors_n_1632554.html

We need to change these dangerous loop holes these fucktards love to work around.

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NFIB, Plaintiff In Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Obamacare, Refuses To Disclose Donors (Original Post) Grassy Knoll Jun 2012 OP

"We need to change these dangerous loop holes these fucktards love to work around." True!!! cstanleytech Jun 2012 #1

Why don't they want it to be known who they are? SoutherDem Jun 2012 #2

They're corporations who are afraid of boycotts if word of their donation got out. SunSeeker Jun 2012 #3

cstanleytech

(26,368 posts)

1. "We need to change these dangerous loop holes these fucktards love to work around." True!!!

Reply to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 12:39 AM

Jun 2012

So very, very true indeed.
Do it so pacs have to disclose who funds them to, there isnt anything in the constitution that protects them from a law requiring disclosure is there?

SoutherDem

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2. Why don't they want it to be known who they are?

Reply to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 12:55 AM

Jun 2012

Just what are they trying to hide?

SunSeeker

(51,824 posts)

3. They're corporations who are afraid of boycotts if word of their donation got out.

Reply to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 01:46 AM

Jun 2012

Unlike megalomaniacal billionaires like Sheldon Adelson, the Walmart's, Blue Shield and Kraft Foods of the world don't want the publicity.

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