{"id":2906,"date":"2013-01-04T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2013-01-04T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T16:27:17","slug":"americans-for-responsible-leaderships-irs-application-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/americans-for-responsible-leaderships-irs-application-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans for Responsible Leadership\u2019s IRS Application Published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/12\/cnn-poll-are-gop-policies-too-extreme\/gop-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2873\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2873\" alt=\"GOP-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GOP-logo.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GOP-logo.jpg 640w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GOP-logo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GOP-logo-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GOP-logo-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Arizona political non-profit that spent millions in 2012 supporting Republicans and opposing President Obama told the IRS in September that it would not spend money to influence elections, according to documents obtained by ProPublica.<\/p>\n<p>The organization, Americans for Responsible Leadership, run by a group of mostly little-known Arizona Republicans, also spent millions of dollars on ballot initiative efforts in Arizona and California. Its $11 million donation to a California group prompted a lawsuit from California\u2019s campaign finance watchdog, which eventually forced it to disclose that it served only as a pass-through for the donation.<\/p>\n<p>ProPublica obtained Americans for Responsible Leadership\u2019s application for federal tax-exempt status, as well as applications submitted by a number of other conservative \u201cdark money\u201d groups active in the 2012 elections, after submitting a public records request to the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2013\/01\/americans_for_responsible_leadership_irs_application.php\" target=\"_blank\">Americans for Responsible Leadership\u2019s IRS Application Published | TPMMuckraker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona political non-profit that spent millions in 2012 supporting Republicans and opposing President Obama told the IRS in September that it would not spend money to influence elections, according to documents obtained by ProPublica. The organization, Americans for Responsible Leadership, run by a group of mostly little-known Arizona Republicans, also spent millions of dollars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[90,26,1129,1128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}