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Hunt for the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, and one finds no grassroots army, no canvassing operation, no office or headquarters at all - just a scuffed U.S. Postal Service box nestled inside a suburban shopping plaza about 10 miles from downtown Louisville...About one in every seven of TV ads in Kentucky's Senate race - about 12,000 of the more than 79,000 ads that have aired through Monday - has been sponsored by Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, which operates as a "social welfare" nonprofit organization that, by law, is prohibited from making the influencing of elections its primary purpose.
Despite having effectively no physical presence, the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition now ranks among the largest social welfare nonprofits in Kentucky - bringing in more money, according to Internal Revenue Service records, than some of Kentucky's more high-profile nonprofits, such as the Kentucky School Boards Association and the Kentucky Derby Festival, the group behind two weeks' worth of events surrounding the Kentucky Derby.
Jennings, a co-founder of the media relations firm RunSwitch PR, said he was hired by the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition's board of directors to "help ensure the organization's message is dispersed in an efficient and effective manner." He stressed to the Center for Public Integrity that the nonprofit "abides by all rules and regulations governing an organization of its kind."
He continued: "The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition seeks to bring about long-term positive change with fewer additional regulatory burdens and taxes. Its activities are all geared toward that mission." With Jennings' assistance, the group, he said, has spent $14 million since the beginning of 2013 - nearly as much money as Grimes has raised - though Jennings is quick to assert that "much of the advertising was of an issue nature and has no connection to any election."
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/10/29/16088/flush-mystery-money-kentucky-nonprofit-haunts-grimes-senate-bid
Remember, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told us ....
"We now conclude that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption."
rotflmao
Hunt for the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, and one finds no grassroots army, no canvassing operation, no office or headquarters at all - just a scuffed U.S. Postal Service box nestled inside a suburban shopping plaza about 10 miles from downtown Louisville...About one in every seven of TV ads in Kentucky's Senate race - about 12,000 of the more than 79,000 ads that have aired through Monday - has been sponsored by Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, which operates as a "social welfare" nonprofit organization that, by law, is prohibited from making the influencing of elections its primary purpose.
Despite having effectively no physical presence, the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition now ranks among the largest social welfare nonprofits in Kentucky - bringing in more money, according to Internal Revenue Service records, than some of Kentucky's more high-profile nonprofits, such as the Kentucky School Boards Association and the Kentucky Derby Festival, the group behind two weeks' worth of events surrounding the Kentucky Derby.
Jennings, a co-founder of the media relations firm RunSwitch PR, said he was hired by the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition's board of directors to "help ensure the organization's message is dispersed in an efficient and effective manner." He stressed to the Center for Public Integrity that the nonprofit "abides by all rules and regulations governing an organization of its kind."
He continued: "The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition seeks to bring about long-term positive change with fewer additional regulatory burdens and taxes. Its activities are all geared toward that mission." With Jennings' assistance, the group, he said, has spent $14 million since the beginning of 2013 - nearly as much money as Grimes has raised - though Jennings is quick to assert that "much of the advertising was of an issue nature and has no connection to any election."
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/10/29/16088/flush-mystery-money-kentucky-nonprofit-haunts-grimes-senate-bid
Remember, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told us ....
"We now conclude that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption."
rotflmao