Salon.com > ProPublca http://www.salon.com Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:02:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Dark money group lies to IRS about being dark money group http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/dark_money_group_lied_to_irs_about_spending_to_stop_left_wing_extremists_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/dark_money_group_lied_to_irs_about_spending_to_stop_left_wing_extremists_partner/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:27:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13347744 ProPublica Shortly before Election Day last year, mailers went out to Texas voters featuring pictures of a Democratic congressional candidate and a rare species of spider, whose discovery had forced stoppage of an important highway construction project.

“The same left-wing extremists who support Pete Gallego want more burdensome regulations that put the interests of spiders above our need to create more jobs,” the flier declared, referring to discovery of the endangered Braken Bat Cave meshweaver. “The best way to stop left-wing extremists from killing jobs is to vote against their hand-picked candidate Pete Gallego.”

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