posted on April 14, 2004 05:05:26 PM new
Counter Clinton Library Gets IRS Tax Exemption
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A group dedicated to building the Counter Clinton Library a rebuttal to the Clinton Presidential Library has been granted status as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization.
The move could help the group with fund-raising but also requires it to be more public about its supporters.
Counterlibe Corp. (search) of Washington, D.C., received word this month from the IRS that it had received the tax-exempt status to pursue its goal of responding to what it sees as "propaganda" planned for the official $160 million presidential library, which is scheduled to open Nov. 18 in Little Rock.
To keep its tax exemption, the Counter Clinton Library must fulfill its plans of building bricks-and-mortar museums in Little Rock and Washington displaying what it promises will be documented negatives from Bill Clinton's eight years in the White House.
Counter Clinton Library founder Dick Erickson envisions 16 rooms of multimedia-based exhibits in Little Rock in time for the opening of the presidential library. Hard copies of documents will be kept primarily at the Washington museum, he said.
Erickson is visiting Little Rock this week from Houston to woo secret support and secure a museum location in the Little Rock area. He said Wednesday that both efforts require secrecy to avoid subterfuge from Clinton's Arkansas friends.
But the tax-exempt status means that Erickson and co-founder John LeBoutillier, former Republican congressman from New York, will not be able to keep names of contributors or land acquisitions secret for long. Counterlibe Corp. will have to file that and other information with the IRS next year.
Erickson said his organization also needs overt financial and public relations support from prominent Republicans. Erickson already has help with documents from insiders including fired Clinton adviser Dick Morris.
Skip Rutherford, president of the nonprofit foundation building the presidential library, was teaching a university class in Fayetteville and could not be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon.
'We have dispatched Dr. David Kay...to search for the bio-warfare agents we believe hidden in Senator Kerry's forehead. If Senator Kerry has used botox as part of a wrinkle enrichment program, he is in violation of UN Resolution 752. Upon receiving Dr. Kay's report, the weapons of mass destruction that Senator Kerry so adamantly insists do not exist...may well be above his very nose.'" --Dick Cheney when asked whether John Kerry has had Botox treaments
posted on April 14, 2004 07:09:41 PM new
How funny, bear.
If nothing else this will serve as an embarassment for them. Would be nice if they could buy/have bought land real close to his Presidential library. One stop for visitors and all.
Maybe this is a 'first'.....having a Counter Presidential Library. Wonder if any other Presidents have had such strong opposition that they took it this far.
