Alumni Virtual Wine and Cheese Webcast a lot of “Fun”

I want to thank all the NMP/SFP alumni—15 or so--who showed up at our first Virtual Wine and Cheese Event on line.  Frankly I was surprised by the turn out but very pleased that at the end of the hour, participants were clamoring for more such events.  So send your suggestions on future “food” themes and discussion topics to me here or to Amanda Sbriscia, Director of Annual Giving & Alumni Relations, who organized the event.  Her e-mail address is asbriscia@baypath.edu

During our hour of wine and cheese, we had a short discussion about my favorite NMP/SFP topic—the abuse of the 501c-4 nonprofit legal structure for electioneering purposes.  So here is yet another media story about this topic:  a 4/9/13 NMP story on Senate Hearings calling on the Justice Department and the IRS to enforce current law to eliminate these abuses.  Listen for the Justice Department spokesperson’s lame excuses that Justice needs a better legislative definition of “coordination” between 501c4 and political campaign organizations in order to enforce current law.  Paaaalease!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2&prgDate=4-9-2013

P.S.    Next week I’ll try to do some investigative reporting to find out if OBAMA’s 501c4, Organizing for Action, has made public a list of its donors and financial reports showing where it is spending its collected money.  

Thoughts?