Still Waiting for Shaheen to Have IRS Investigate the NHCAA - Granite Grok

Still Waiting for Shaheen to Have IRS Investigate the NHCAA

The Partisan Progressive NHCA
The Partisan Progressive NHCA

The New Hampshire Citizens Alliance (NHCA) and the New Hampshire Citizens Alliance for Action (NHCAA) have been pretending to operate as a grassroots, non-partsian, group with tax exempt status for years.  This is not only untrue it is virtually impossible.

The NHCA and NHCAA are the local chapter of USAction which..

… empowers our state affiliates by providing funding, training and leadership development.  We also work in partnership with our affiliates to develop strategic national civic engagement and issues-based campaigns.

To what end?  Well, USAction used to be very up front about that but they have since scrubbed their website to hide the fact they are proud to be “The Nations largest progressive activist organization.”    An activist organization that funds and trains affiliates (NHCA/HNCAA) to do what?  Well, they used to be upfront about that as well.  Take a look at the list and see if you can guess why they scrubbed it…

“fighting the right wing agenda”;…

Sounds partisan enough to me.  But wait!  There’s more…

“building grassroots political power“;

winning “social, racial and economic justice for all”;

supporting a system of taxpayer-funded socialized medicine;

reversing “reckless tax cuts for millionaires and corporations” which shield the “wealthy” from paying their “fair share“;

advocating for “pro-consumer and environmental regulation of corporate abuse”; 

“strengthening progressive voices on local, state and national issues”; 

and working to “register, educate and get out the vote … [to] help progressives get elected at all levels of government.”

Emphasis mine.

Can you guess why they scrubbed their agenda?  Because then there wouldn’t be any doubt about whether this group and its affiliates were just another well funded partisan progressive political machine hiding as non-profits.

They may have scrubbed their proud progressive message for more clandestine bread-crumbs (and one would be right to ask why?) but their goals are the same.  Just wander to their web sites and look at what they say and support.  Marx and Hegel could not have described it any better.  So they are (obviously) still a partisan progressives organization, funded by progressive millionaires and billionaires, and still willing to  spotlight progressive “partners” like AFSCME and the SEIU; and “achievements ” in progressive policy like ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, wealth redistribution (Democrat tax policy), open-borders immigration policy, and medicaid expansion, to name a few.

Need more evidence?   Just stroll over to OpenSecrets.org where the progressive cat peeks out of the bag a bit further.  USAction–now one of those evil Super PAC’s we are meant to loathe–is listed as a liberal and left-leaning group, one that sends money to New Hampshire in support of their progressive outreach project.

USAction - Liberal group

And the NHCA and NHCAA, planted here by the Liberal group USAction, the nations largest progressive activist organization, continue to enjoy protection as a non-profit, free of fear that Jeanne Shaheen’s IRS head-hunting mission will ever come looking at them, a question I posited after discovering that the NHCA had created the NHCAA for the sole purpose of helping re-elect Democrat congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter in 2010.  Not much has changed.  In 2012 the NHCA used the NHCAA to invest almost $19,000.00 dollars to elect one, very partisan progressive Democrat to congress.

Partisan, progressive, and…well funded.

In 2010 the NHCA reported to the IRA incoming revenues of $165,297.00.  For 2011 that number increased by 43% to $237,537.00.  The NHCA’s 2011 IRS 990 shows that of that $237,537.00 dollars  in “donations” $189.617.00 (80%) was spent on salaries and compensation.  Grassroots?  Talk about ‘fertilizing’ the ‘lawn’ with out of state donkey manure.

NHCA 2011 IRS 990 Screen grab
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Who wants’ to bet the 2012 990 will demonstrate an even greater infusion of progressive fertilizer onto the “grassroots” of the NHCA/NHCAA and…we can also add to this mix the USAction Education fund, which has a tentacle in New Hampshire as well, run by the same people, from the same office, with the same progressive agenda, hiding as a non-partisan, non-profit group.

I’m running long on this post; we’ll save the rest for later.  But take these simple truths with you.  NHCA and its progressive warts are just out of state groups, operating invisibly as non-partisans, to advance a very liberal policy agenda.  They are coordinating with other out of state implants like GraniteState Progress to push a national, top-down Democrat party agenda.  And I could care less about any of that except that they are hiding who they and lying about being non-partisan.  They are exactly what Jeanne Shaheen was claiming she was after in her letter to the IRS, but because they support progressive Democrats and Progressive policies, they are effectively immune to scrutiny.

 

 

 

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