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Concerned taxpayers of america blanketed that district with and you wanted to know who was spending more than $150,000 in that district to try to unseat incumbent democrat peter depassio, well, the website of concerned taxpayers of america would have of no help to you. it has no donor names, no information, just these very pretty stock photos. when i interviewed the beneficiary of those ads, the republican running against peter defazio, before we got to the part of the interview about aides being a government conspiracy and him thinking that nuclear radiation is good for you and nuclear waste should be sprinkled over the oceans, i asked him if he knew who was spending all that money in his district on his behalf. he said he had no idea. joining us for the interview tonight is art robinson. mr. robinson, thank you very much for your time, sir. thank you for yours. am i correct in saying that you really have no idea whose funding this $150,000 ad buy that promotes your candidacy? ....
they told us they had nothing to do with the ad or organization. next we called of the head of state republican party, mike stewart. i m calling from cnn ac 36037 we had a couple of questions we wanted to ask you. mr. stuart denied any connection and until recently he headed up the foundation but wouldn t disclose donor names. after our calls we haven t been able to find out whose money paid for the ad. it s not just conservative, it s liberal ones as well. a group called florida is not for sale supposedly spent $50,000 to attack a senate primary candidate. according to the washington post, outside groups have spent $80 million in this campaign, five times greater than it was in 2006. there s a huge loophole. these groups have to start reporting within 30 days of a primary and 60 days of the general election. meaning none of money spent before that, none gets reported. ....
You can agree or disagree with the message. that s not what we re talking about. but what you can t do is find out who s pushing the ad. here s the name. west virginia conservative foundation is responsible for the content of this advertising. who is behind the west virginia conservative foundation? the ad buy cost nearly a quarter million dollars. whose money is it? we put a team of staffers and interns on it today to find out. is the group affiliated with the congressman s challenger, spike maynard? we called his campaign. this is anne clifford calling from cnn s ac 360. i was wondering if i could speak with mr. carpenter. they told us they had nothing to do with the ad or organization. next we called of the head of state republican party, mike stewart. i m calling from cnn ac 360. we had a couple of quick questions we wanted to ask you. mr. stuart denied any connection and until recently he headed up the foundation but wouldn t disclose donor names. ....
Weeks now this has been one of the top news stories. so in my mind doesn t look like there s an investigation happening. neil: what happened in your case, becky? remind viewers. your group was targeted. tell us what you went through and what you were promised or maybe you weren t promised when it came to light. we applied for aç 501(c)(4) status in october of 2010. they cashed our check seven days later, told us we could wait 90 days before we heard something. it was 459 days before we heard anything from the irs, and that is when they sent a letter asking for 90 additional pieces of information that were unconstitutional and clearly out of the bounds neil: give me some examples. they wanted to now our donor names, the dates they gave, the amounts they gave, they wanted s to identify our volunteers and wanted to know if any volunteers or donors were ever going to run for office. if they were, what was the office. they wanted to know they ....
they told us they had nothing to do with the ad or organization. next we called of the head of state republican party, mike stewart. i m calling from cnn ac 36037 we had a couple of questions we wanted to ask you. mr. stuart denied any connection and until recently he headed up the foundation but wouldn t disclose donor names. after our calls we haven t been able to find out whose money paid for the ad. it s not just conservative, it s liberal ones as well. a group called florida is not for sale supposedly spent $50,000 to attack a senate primary candidate. according to the washington post, outside groups have spent $80 million in this campaign, five times greater than it was in 2006. there s a huge loophole. these groups have to start reporting within 30 days of a primary and 60 days of the general election. meaning none of money spent before that, none gets reported. ....