There's nonpartisan and there's "nonpartisan".
For instance, an example of the latter came to set up shop in New
Hampshire recently. Called Americans for Prosperity, it's a group
that says its reason for being is to fight against taxes and federal
earmarks.
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All well and good, except at the tax-exempt organization's New
Hampshire kickoff, the claim was made that it's
"nonpartisan." Really. It s being run in New Hampshire by
Curdy Lewandowski, a longtime GOP activist who ran U.S. Sen. Bob
Smith's unsuccessful re-election campaign in 2002. And at that
kickoff, both Lewandowski and Deputy Director Ted Maravelias made sure
to praise Republican candidates and condemned the policies of Democrats,
including Jeanne Shaheen.
Funny that such a nonpartisan group would pick on Shaheen, who as
New Hampshire governor killed a measure that, it turns out, may have
been the last best hope of advocates fighting for an income tax.
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