True charities that have been granted tax-exempt status from the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization are strictly prohibited from taking part in politics. But during the 2014 midterms, a handful of groups paid to air TV ads that dealt specifically with candidates for political office. In one instance, ads from a partnership of pro-environmental nonprofits criticized several politicians for their support of fracking. “We definitely were not intending to ask people to do anything at the polls, said Mary Maclean Asbill, an attorney representing one of the nonprofits involved.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:30:36 +0000
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