The group's participation in the Wisconsin "Verify the Recall" effort is one example.
501(c)(3) charities
may conduct activities like voter registration or get-out-the-vote drives, as long as there is no bias against a particular candidate.
But True the Vote's rhetoric surrounding its recall petition "verification" activities made it clear which side they supported.
Blog posts, for example,
suggested "massive fraud" by Democrats in the recall petition effort and
exclaimed that "we should not believe the claims of union-supporters and anti-Walker operatives who say that they collected more than one million signatures on petitions to recall Governor Scott Walker."
And the True the Vote / Verify the Recall
findings were, at best, extremely sloppy: True the Vote alleged that recall proponents failed to collect enough valid signatures, but
even a cursory review of their analysis showed that many of the rejected signatures were entirely legitimate -- perhaps indicating the true goal was to discredit the recall effort rather than "verify" anything.
After recall petitions were collected and turned in, the Walker campaign refused to challenge any signatures, and
instead asked the state elections board to accept challenges from Verify the Recall (which the board rejected, since there is no basis in state law for accepting such third-party challenges).
True the Vote's position on the recall effort, and the Walker campaign essentially accepting their work as an in-kind campaign contribution, raise legitimate questions about whether this is appropriate activity for a non-partisan, non-political charity.
And True the Vote appeared to recognize this and tried distancing itself from the Verify the Recall effort.
It was an OSHA inspection you hack/s. The fed is low on Inspectors in all agencies in no small part to GOP cutting funding, no doubt. USDA is a good example. How many meat inspectors do we have for the 100's/1000's of slaughter houses in this country? VERY few relative to the number of slaughter houses.
