The Government Integrity Fund is a 501(c)4, a dark money group with a wildly misleading name. The Fund has been making a big splash in Ohio, spending a million dollars in advertisements against Senator Sherrod Brown.
Justin Elliott’s recent report in ProPublica reveals the extent of the Fund’s duplicity. Elliott uncovered the Government Integrity Fund’s IRS filings, in which the group’s lawyer marks that “no” it does “not plan to spend any money attempting to influence the selection, nomination, election, or appointment of any person to any Federal, state, or local public office or to an office in a political organization?” in their application for nonprofit status. Huh?
There’s more in the IRS filing:
