As he campaigns, Mr. Rubio is offering voters proper-sounding prescriptions about the growing problem of secretive funds. “As long as you know who’s behind the money and how much they’re giving and where they’re spending it, I think that’s the sunlight that we need,” he told a New Hampshire voter earlier this year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/opini ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;The group, called the Conservative Solutions Project, was created by veteran Rubio loyalists. According to tax law, a nonprofit group like this is supposed to be largely nonpolitical, “promoting the common good and general welfare of the people of the community as a whole” — not investing in the welfare of candidate Rubio. Yet the group has underwritten $5.5 million in pro-Rubio ads this year that have not cost the official Rubio campaign a dime, according to The Times’s Jonathan Martin and Nicholas Confessore.
By claiming “social welfare” status (which it clearly does not deserve), the group can keep the identity of its donors secret from voters.
Maybe the IRS or FEC will go and investigate...
