NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, is being accused of yet again not filing its tax returns on time — actually, of never filing its tax returns on time — by Fred Karger, the former GOP presidential candidate and LGBT activist who founded Rights Equal Rights.
“As the Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a distinguished law professor and a former law school dean, I had hoped that you would perhaps try and give NOM some much needed integrity,” Karger writes in a letter today to NOM Chairman John Eastman:
NOM has not filed its tax returns on time with the Internal Revenue Service for both its 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 organizations for any of the five years since it began. I have had to visit your various NOM offices year after year to request them. Others and I have sent certified letters requesting your 990’s and never received them. I finally had to file multiple complaints with the IRS to force your organization to release its tax returns.
I have been the most prominent watchdog of the National Organization for Marriage since June of 2008, soon after it was established. I watched NOM grow from nothing to an operation working in over half the states on each and every anti-gay legal and political battle. NOM is also deeply involved in hundreds of state and federal candidate campaigns. Additionally, all your federal lobbying and other activities in Washington, DC rival that of the Family Research Council and the American Family Association.
Eastman, regular readers will recall, seemed to have laughed at the idea of Iran dropping a nuclear missile on New York, and seemed to call it “a good idea.”
Karger adds:
This year I filed the complaint against NOM for not reporting $345,000 in funds it apparently raised in 2008 to qualify and pass California’s Proposition 8 campaign. The California Fair Political Practices Commission that investigates less that 5% of the complaints it received has begun an investigation into these charges five months ago.
You can’t blame me for being suspicious about your funding, when year after year NOM either doesn’t file its tax returns or files them a year or two late.
So, as NOM’s Chairman and as a professor of Constitutional Law at the Chapman University School of Law, I would hope that finally there may be a modicum of integrity at the National Organization for Marriage.
We hope that someone with your distinguished record will act in accordance with the law unlike your predecessors as NOM Chairs, Robby George and Maggie Gallagher.
We assume that you will promptly obey federal law and file and release both sets of tax returns.
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