The nonprofits that profit politicians

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/the-nonprofits-that-profit-politicians-92426.html?hp=f1

Here’s a riddle: What do you call a group that raises and spends money to produce television ads and mail advertisements raising the profile of an individual politician ahead of a likely campaign?

In 2013, you might call it a nonprofit.

Amid the spring uproar over the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny, the political world has largely overlooked a fresh innovation in the world of outside spending: nonprofits organized around broad issues of public interest that actually function to advance the ambitions of a single potential candidate.

A pair of 2014 Senate contenders have led the way: In North Carolina, House Speaker Thom Tillis has benefited from the activities of a group called the North Carolina House Legislative Partners, a 501(c)(4) set up this year to bolster the issue agenda of Republicans in the state Legislature.

In practice, that has meant running TV ads statewide featuring Tillis talking about the great things state Republicans are working to accomplish. Tillis formally announced a challenge to Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan last week, months after those nonprofit ads began running.

only the right wing is feigning this "how dare they" BS we know you don't get millions of dollars and overload the airways with promotional ads for a specific candidate or party, get called out after failure for blowing 300 million bucks and lost.  

so did they spend 600 million on business business, we didn't hear that only that Rove was now the red headed step child for losing the WH at a price of 300 million.

http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1308.aspx

The potential candidates and their advisers play down the extent to which these nonprofits are explicitly intended to lay the groundwork for Senate races: Jacobs points out that he founded RHI before Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin announced his retirement and created an open-seat race. Tillis advisers say the legislative nonprofit is more than a vehicle for the speaker, and that other Republicans will take over its leadership now that he’s running for Senate.

At the same time, Republicans involved in both efforts don’t deny there’s some political advantage to the outside-group activities.

of course they can't deny it, SCOTUS all but handed them so they thought the path of greenbacks to the WH but this has proven 2012 to only work if you got some kinda platform that is not built on lies and innuendo, no game, no gain.