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12 Noon: Open Govt. Group Common Cause’s Attorney Nick Surgey will explain why Common Cause has accused a conservative legislative group (ALEC) of falsely claiming tax-exempt status while doing widespread lobbying. (ALEC Exposed: Now Tell the IRS to Investigate ALEC Exposed: Take Action!ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Council – is a secretive and powerful front group of corporations that are investing millions of dollars a year to write business-friendly legislation at the expense of the middle class. A new website (ALECexposed.org) reveals that ALEC has drafted more than 800 model bills for state legislators – including bills to make it more difficult for citizens to vote, and even a resolution in support of the horrendous Citizens United decision, which opened the floodgates for corporate money in our elections. Worse, they are lobbying in state capitals across the country, all while claiming to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that they are a charitable organization that does NO lobbying – and therefore receiving certain tax benefits.) _____________ 12:30PM Conversation with Grace Mattern, former executive director of the NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence about her new, insightful and raw book “The Truth About Death”. Mattern will be at Gibson’s Bookstore on Main Street in Concord, NH at 7 p.m. on Thursday(April 26) to read poetry from her book and talk life and loss.
