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Rove Group Claims It Was Targeted By IRS

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics

Crossroads GPS, the conservative nonprofit that directly spent more than $70 million on federal political campaigns in the 2012 election, believes tha...

IRS Scandal a Carbuncle -- on a Cancer-Wracked Body

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics
Leo W. Gerard

Permitting Tea Party, left-wing, libertarian, middle-of-the-road -- whatever -- groups to define themselves as untaxed social welfare organizations that may accept unlimited, untaxed, secret corporate gifts and sponsor political ads is a sarcoma on democracy.

Zach Carter

Karl Rove Talks IRS Scandal, Compares His Group To NAACP

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Karl Rove on Sunday defended his group Crossroads GPS, a 501(c)4 non-profit organization, against charges that it improperly benefited f...

IRS Kerfuffle Shows Need for Disclosure Reforms

Blair Bowie | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics
Blair Bowie

Equally, if not more, disturbing, is that other than the investigation of this handful of groups, the IRS hasn't actually taken the steps needed to ensure that sham non-profits are not abusing the tax code to flood our elections with secret money.

Sam Stein

IRS Scandal Puts Dems Who Called For Investigation Of Conservative Group In A Bind

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- During the fall months of 2010, congressional Democrats grew increasingly alarmed that conservative non-profit groups, backed by big-mon...

Paul Blumenthal

Dem Senator: Don't Forget The Other IRS Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) took to the Senate floor Wednesday to remind Americans that the Internal Revenue Service's inappropriat...

Peter H. Stone

Karl Rove-Backed Super PAC Dealt Major Blow

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter H. Stone | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

The powerful fundraising team that American Crossroads deployed in 2012 to pull in more than $300 million has lost ace fundraiser Haley Barbour, accor...

Paul Blumenthal

Will Karl Rove Have To Disclose His Donors?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- For the third time, the Federal Election Commission has sent a letter to Crossroads GPS, the "dark money" nonprofit founded by Karl Rove...

Paul Blumenthal

Failure To Prosecute 'Dark Money' Hit In Senate Hearing

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- At a congressional hearing on Tuesday convened by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), officials from the Justice Department and the Intern...

Zach Carter

Karl Rove Mocks Sarah Palin Tenure As Governor

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- GOP uberconsultant Karl Rove lashed out at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) on Sunday, mocking her decision to leave office early. Rov...

Rove-Backed Anti-Tea Party Effort Roils Republicans

Posted 02.04.2013 | Politics

American Crossroads, a super PAC backed by GOP strategist Karl Rove, has launched a new effort to combat the recent trend of fringe Republican candida...

Biggest Beneficiaries Of Contentious Citizens United Ruling Exposed

AlterNet | Posted 01.21.2013 | Politics

As the never-ending campaign ads demonstrated, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United flooded the most recent election with additional money, m...

Watchdogs Urge Action On Rove Group

ProPublica | Posted 01.03.2013 | Politics

By Justin Elliott ProPublica, Jan. 2, 2013, 5:43 p.m.Two watchdog groups are calling on the IRS to reject Crossroads GPS' request to be recognized a...

Rove Group's Curious Claim Exposed

ProPublica | Kim Barker | Posted 12.14.2012 | Politics

What Karl Rove's Dark Money Nonprofit Told the IRS by Kim Barker ProPublica, Dec. 14, 2012, 10:19 a.m. In a confidential 2010 filing, Crossroads ...

Paul Blumenthal

Karl Rove Group Takes Aim At 2014 Senate Races

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.11.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The 2012 election is barely five weeks behind us, but conservative "dark money" groups are already beginning their 2014 campaign. Crossr...

Christina Wilkie

Deficit Debate Sends Old Foes Back To The Airwaves

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 12.08.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The lobbying battle over federal budget priorities heated up this week, as two powerful factions announced major TV ad campaigns aimed a...

Fiscal Cliff Push Picks Up Where 2012 Campaign Left Off

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 02.06.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Debate over the "fiscal cliff" has money pouring into television, print, radio and online ads, picking up where the wall-to-wall el...

Splendor in the Gaffes

Paul Steven Stone | Posted 02.04.2013 | Politics
Paul Steven Stone

I don't know about you, but I'm going to move to the other side of the electoral bed and light up a cigarette. Anyone have a match? And how sw...

Rove-Linked Group Launches New Attack Against Obama

The Huffington Post | Sarah Bufkin | Posted 12.05.2012 | Politics

Crossroads GPS, a nonprofit organization founded by conservative strategist Karl Rove, has bought its first television ad since the election, attackin...

'TOTAL CRAP'

Arlington Patch | Jason Spencer | Posted 11.16.2012 | Politics

Conservative groups like Crossroads GPS, Americans for Prosperity and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce began running negative ads against Tim Kaine in Nov...

Paul Blumenthal

How A Costly Failure Can Reap Big Wins

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 11.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Karl Rove's Crossroads groups have come under heavy criticism since the Nov. 6 elections, from which they walked away with little to sho...

Zach Carter

Club For Growth Bests Conservative Groups In Picking 2012 Winners

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.12.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Although it lost three of its marquee Senate races on Tuesday, the hardline economic conservative group Club for Growth bested both Karl...

Hunter Stuart

WATCH: Karl Rove's 19 Justifications For GOP's Election Loss

HuffingtonPost.com | Hunter Stuart | Posted 11.12.2012 | Politics

Republican strategist Karl Rove has a lot to answer for. After spending over $300 million to get GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney elected, an...

Karl Rove: Obama Won 'By Suppressing The Vote'

The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.09.2012 | Politics

Mitt Romney lost the election because President Barack Obama engaged in voter suppression, according to Republican political strategist Karl Rove. ...

Amanda Terkel

Karl Rove Spins GOP Election Losses

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.08.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- No one lost as much on election night as Karl Rove. Although he wasn't running for office, his Crossroads organizations spent more th...