<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
<html><head><style type="text/css"><!--
blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 }
--></style><title>Rich-backed organizations bankroll 98% of
pro-Proposition</title></head><body>
<div>From the Center for Public Integrity.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Mark</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1"
color="#000000"
>http://www.takingsinitiatives.org/index.php?option=com_content&t<span
></span>ask=view&id=145&Itemid=62</font></div>
<div>****************</div>
<div><font color="#000000"> In Idaho, It's One for
2 <x-tab> </x-tab></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
Rich-backed organizations bankroll 98% of pro-Proposition 2 effort<br>
<br>
by josh israel<br>
Published: October 11, 2006<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">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.</font></div>
</body>
</html>