[Vision2020] Rich-backed organizations bankroll 98% of pro-Proposition 2 effort

[Mark Solomon]

 From the Center for Public Integrity.

Mark

http://www.takingsinitiatives.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=145&Itemid=62
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  In Idaho, It's One for 2 

Rich-backed organizations bankroll 98% of pro-Proposition 2 effort

by josh israel
Published: October 11, 2006

The Idaho group that's pushing Proposition 2 is being kept afloat by 
large infusions of cash from out-of-state organizations controlled by 
Howard Rich, a wealthy political activist in New York.

Records released yesterday by the Idaho Secretary of State's office 
show that This House is MY Home, the chief proponent of Proposition 
2, received $75,000 of its $76,764 in contributions from June 3 to 
September 30, 2006, from America at its Best, a Rich-funded 
organization.

Internal Revenue Service records show that America at its Best 
operates from a residential address in Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of 
Washington, D.C., but the organization's Idaho filings list its 
address as a post office box in Kalispell, Montana.

Records filed with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure 
Commission show that nearly all of America at its Best's funds come 
from three Rich-led organizations: Americans for Limited Government, 
in Chicago; Club for Growth State Action, also in Chicago; and the 
Fund for Democracy, in New York City. The three organizations have 
given more than $4 million to America at its Best this year alone.

In the first nine months of this year, This House is MY Home raised 
$412,000 from Rich-backed organizations and $1,804 from other 
contributors, including at least eight Idahoans.
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