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OFA to refuse corporate, foreign money, Messina says
By REID J. EPSTEIN | 3/7/13 8:24 AM EST
President Obama’s political arm will disclose donors who give at least $250 and will refuse corporate, foreign and lobbyist money, its chairman wrote Thursday on CNN.com.


Organizing for Action chairman Jim Messina said the group will not "accept contributions from corporations, federal lobbyists or foreign donors" and will release quarterly contribution reports.
“While Organizing for Action is a nonprofit social welfare organization that faces a lower disclosure threshold than a political campaign, we believe in being open and transparent,” Messina wrote. “That's why every donor who gives $250 or more to this organization will be disclosed on the website with the exact amount they give on a quarterly basis. We have decided not to accept contributions from corporations, federal lobbyists or foreign donors.”
OFA is allowed under the tax code to accept unlimited secret corporate money – as has sought to publicly paint itself as the grass-roots successor to Obama’s re-election campaign. Its launch was announced at a corporate-sponsored event for traditional Democratic mega-donors.
Obama has decried secret campaign contributions since the 2010 Supreme Court decision allowing them. He made decrying political contributions from billionaires, a focus his 2012 campaign stump speech.


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