Taxpayers continue to fund right-wing meetings to assess presidential candidates

Posted by Sarah Posner at 11:46 AM on February 27, 2007.

Sarah Posner: How does the Council for National Policy continue to operate in secret?

As reported on these pages two years ago, the Council for National Policy is a secretive association of influential ultra-conservatives who get charitable tax breaks for their membership dues and thrice yearly trips to fancy resorts to hobnob with politicians and policymakers. The secrecy surrounding an organization that was the brainchild of end-timers and right-wing financiers is contrary not only to democratic principles generally, but also to the Internal Revenue Code, which requires tax-exempt educational organizations to educate the general public -- in other words, to make its lectures, publications and other materials publicly available.