{"id":40356,"date":"2013-12-06T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40356"},"modified":"2013-12-06T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:21:48","slug":"the-liberal-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40356","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law violation, Minnesota conservative activists noted that the Alliance for a &#8220;Better&#8221; Minnesota &#8211; the attack-PR firm supported by the unions and Alita Messinger, which was trying to dig on Scott Honour for not releasing his tax information &#8211; hadn&#8217;t released its tax or donor information yet. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worse still in Wisconsin; a liberal-controlled county launched a shakedown of Wisconsin conservative groups, in order to find out their donors to target them for future harassment. <\/p>\n<p>And this seems to be a national pattern; liberal groups caterwauling about &#8220;lack of transparency&#8221; in conservative groups, while themselves keeping their donor lists secret:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two weeks ago, the liberal Center for Media and Democracy kicked off a national campaign to reveal the identities of anonymous contributors to conservative groups in an effort to unseat the GOP governor here.<\/p>\n<div> <\/div>\n<p>Now the group may have to answer embarrassing questions about its own finances&#8230;.CMD lists no donors on its tax returns, but its website identifies numerous financial backers without any financial data. Several are highlighted in bold and labeled \u201ccurrent donors.\u201d But one important name is missing: Schwab.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/watchdog.org\/118639\/dark-money-wisconsin\/\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law violation, Minnesota conservative activists noted that the Alliance for a &#8220;Better&#8221; Minnesota &#8211; the attack-PR firm supported by the unions and Alita Messinger, which was trying to dig on Scott Honour for not releasing his tax information &#8211; hadn&#8217;t released its tax or donor information yet. It&#8217;s worse still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40377,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40356\/revisions\/40377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}