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Kate Doner: show up in dark $ doc on coordination, get koch and adelson $John doe wi, eric okeefe via johnson, also leo leoMarch 2011, Kate Doner was listed as the acting executive director of Project Veritas. The current acting executive director, Shane Cory, said that he took over that position in April 2011. Ms. Doner was the former director of finance at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a research institute that promotes liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and limited government.=<a href="https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Videographer-Who-Took-Aim-at/158353">https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Videographer-Who-Took-Aim-at/158353</a>2011project Veritas, the organization created by the controversial videographer James O’Keefe, has received charity status from the Internal Revenue Service.Members of Mr. O’Keefe’s group <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/96774-project-veritas.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">applied for nonprofit status</a> for Project Veritas in August 2010 to help raise money to pay for its hidden-camera exposés of groups like NPR and Acorn that it believes are dishonest. Its videos of NPR led the chief executive and chief fund raiser to <a href="http://philanthropy.com/article/NPR-s-Scandal-Serves-as/126765/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">leave their jobs</a> within days of their release,The IRS approved their application for tax-exempt status in April, according to documents from the tax agency. Donors who choose to give money to Project Veritas are now eligible to deduct the value of their donations on their federal income taxes.With its tax-exempt status now in hand, Mr. O’Keefe’s group plans to expand its work in part by training people to expose misconduct and corruption in their hometowns.“We’re pleased that Project Veritas’s nonprofit status has been approved,” Mr. O’Keefe told The Chronicle in an e-mail message. “Our nonpartisan mission of exposing corruption while training new, investigative journalists can now be fully supported by donors who require a tax-exemption for their generous contributions.”<h4 class="COPsubhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Expects to Grow</h4>The scope of Project Veritas’s work will largely rest on how much money the group is able to raise. Project Veritas said on its IRS application that it expects to collect $1.65-million over three years. But in a correspondence with the IRS in March, Kate Doner, then the group’s acting executive director, said Project Veritas is not yet raising money at that pace.As of December 31, 2010, Project Veritas reported income of just $2,367. Its expenses totaled $2,200, which covered mailbox rental and Web-site fees, Ms. Doner wrote.Shane Cory, who last month replaced Ms. Doner as its acting director, says the group is growing and that it expects to expand in the coming months.“We’re hiring our first employee next week,” said Mr. Cory, who was the former director of operations for Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group. “We’re still building the organization.”Mr. O’Keefe was to earn an estimated annual salary of $120,000 through his work with the group, according to its IRS application.But Mr. Cory said that that salary was just a projection.“He still has not drawn a salary to date,” Mr. Cory said.<h4 class="COPsubhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Online Fund Raising</h4>The group’s reported revenue from 2010 does not include donations given online at <a href="http://www.meactrust.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">MEACTrust.org</a>, a Web site that Project Veritas created for the Muslim Education Action Center, a fictional group used by Project Veritas as part of the undercover video sting involving NPR executives. After the video was released, the Web site revealed Project Veritas’s work and asked for donations from the public. The Web site says it has raised $38,068 from 512 donors.IRS records show that Project Veritas is also planning to expand its fund-raising efforts.In March the organization hired American Target Advertising, of Manassas, Va., to solicit money online and to build an e-mail database of potential donors.American Target Advertising is headed by Richard Viguerie, a co-author of America’s Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Over America and founder of the conservative Web site Conservativehq.com.While Mr. O’Keefe’s investigations have focused on organizations that are targets of conservatives, Project Veritas said in its application with the IRS that it does not intend to use its tax-exempt status to influence legislation.The IRS released <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/96774-project-veritas.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">the application</a>, Form 1023, as well as supporting documents and correspondence between IRS officials and the organization, following a Freedom of Information Act request from The Chronicle.===vigurie ATA:<pre class="DV-textContents" style="box-sizing: content-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-family: courier, monotype; line-height: 1.4em; overflow: hidden; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 46px;">Mar 08

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Members of Mr. O'Keefe's group applied for nonprofit status for Project Veritas in August 2010 to help raise ... But in a correspondence with the IRS in March, Kate Doner, then the ... Shane Cory, who last month replaced Ms. Doner as its acting ...</a></div><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Videographer-Who-Took-Aim-at/158353+Shane+Cory+and+Kate+Doner,+who+helped+build+Project+Veritas+into+a+sustainable+c3+501&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicmNGyqeTiAhVRba0KHbfJDlIQHzAAegQIAhAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Videographer-Who-Took-Aim-at/158353+Shane+Cory+and+Kate+Doner,+who+helped+build+Project+Veritas+into+a+sustainable+c3+501&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicmNGyqeTiAhVRba0KHbfJDlIQHzAAegQIAhAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">also shane corey</a><div class="r" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Videographer-Who-Took-Aim-at/158353+Shane+Cory+and+Kate+Doner,+who+helped+build+Project+Veritas+into+a+sustainable+c3+501&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicmNGyqeTiAhVRba0KHbfJDlIQHzAAegQIAhAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Videographer-Who-Took-Aim-at/158353+Shane+Cory+and+Kate+Doner,+who+helped+build+Project+Veritas+into+a+sustainable+c3+501&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicmNGyqeTiAhVRba0KHbfJDlIQHzAAegQIAhAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aQEuBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA334&lpg=PA334&dq=leonard+leo+project+veritas+o%27keefe+james+breakthrough&source=bl&ots=a3pRpqKHVb&sig=ACfU3U2T8Seq6xQ1mN3og4XiihcR0OgTgg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHpPOSouTiAhVL-qwKHUT4BOsQ6AEwA3oECAkQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; cursor: pointer;">Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy</a></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1476706182</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><div class="slp f" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.54;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22James+O%27Keefe%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHpPOSouTiAhVL-qwKHUT4BOsQ9AgwA3oECAkQAg" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">James O'Keefe</a> - 2014 - ‎Biography & Autobiography</div>Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy James O'Keefe ... videos in Congress; Leonard Leo, who introduced me to Mike Madigan; Shane Cory and Kate Doner, who helped build Project Veritas into a sustainable c3; Ed Hulse, ...</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">On September 14, the Guardian newspaper which published the Snowden revelation, published a massive set of documents from the Scott Walker dark money probe know as the "John Doe" investigation. We highly recommend the lengthy expose on secret money and backroom deals, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/sep/14/john-doe-files-scott-walker-corporate-cash-american-politics" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">which you can access here</a>. If you don't have time to read all 1,500 emails and documents <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/projectid:%2029102-the-john-doe-files" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">in the cache</a>, our staff has picked out some of the most illuminating.At the heart of the matter are three men. Scott Walker, RJ Johnson (who simultaneously worked for Walker and the dark money machine Wisconsin Club for Growth, say prosecutors) and Keith Gilkes who was Walker's chief of staff in 2011and his campaign manager in 2012. Prosecutors were investigating whether campaign money was channeled through a purportedly "independent group" in order to circumvent state and federal rules that set limits on political contributions and require them to be publicly revealed, explains the Guardian.1. National Club for Growth's David Keating questions RJ Johnson of Wisconsin Club for Growth, who becomes Walker's top campaign advisory shortly after this email, about the legality of his activities way back in 2009 prior to Walker's run for Governor in 2010. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105984-2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1.html/#document/p25" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1, p.25)</a>2. Nick Ayers of Republican Governors Association outlines a coordinated "battle plan" to Gov. Walker and Reince Priebus at an early date March 2011. RGA would go on to spend a whopping $9.5 million on the recall as an "independent" expenditure group. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105984-2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1.html/#document/p28" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1, p.28)</a>3. RJ Johnson, gives talking points to Gov. Walker that boast about the success of the coordinated efforts in the 2011 recalls. No talk of "issues" here, just bare-knuckled politics. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105984-2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1.html/#document/p55" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1, p.55)</a>4. Scott Walker talks to Karl Rove. "Bottom Line: RJ helps keeps in place a team that is wildly successful in Wisconsin. We are running 9 recall elections and it would be like 9 congressional markets in every market in the state and twin cities." <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105183-Key-Misc-Set-One.html/#document/p16" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(Key-Misc-Set-One, p.16)</a><div class="clearfix">5. RJ Johnson talks to Keith Gilkes, Walker campaign manager, and Gov. Walker about why they need to keep activities of the 3rd party groups under their command. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105984-2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1.html/#document/p2" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1, p.2)</a>6. Fundraiser Kate Donor explains the strategy of locking down commitments from a host of supposedly "independent" groups like the Koch Brothers Americans for Prosperity to Keith Gilkes, RJ Johnson and Gov. Walker. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105980-Fundraising-Coordination.html/#document/p14" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(Fundraising-Coordination, p.14)</a>7. Keith Gilkes forwards "oppo" opposition research on controversial potential donors, including Harold Simmons, Dallas-based CEO of a lead pigment company, to Gov. Walker. After this exchange, some checks from these givers are sent to Wisconsin Club for Growth where they will remain secret and not be publicly disclosed as a campaign contribution to Walker. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105984-2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1.html/#document/p61" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT1, p.61)</a>8. Harold Simmons, NL Industries/CONTRAN, scheduled contact with Walker plus his personal and corporate checks. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105985-2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT2.html/#document/p127" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(2012-08-14-Exhibits-01-100-PT2, p.127</a>; <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105164-Corporate-Checks-Sanitized.html/#document/p5" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Corporate-Checks-Sanitized, p.5-6)</a>9. Affidavit of Wisconsin Club for Growth director Eric O'Keefe who explains its all about "liberty and fiscal responsibility" not winning elections. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105216-WICFG-Quash-Aff.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(WICFG-Quash-Aff)</a>10. Jay Rosser, a representative of T. Boone Pickens, email to RJ Johnson and Kate Doner. Interestingly, declines to give: "we recognize the opportunity to give anonymously, but frankly that is just not our style." <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3105980-Fundraising-Coordination.html/#document/p4" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">(Fundraising-Coordination, p.4)</a> It is likely that not all the people mentioned in these documents gave secretly to Walker.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-13 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" prw="prw" images="images" tag_blue.png="tag_blue.png" left="left" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 1em;"><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/topics/campaign-finance" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Campaign Finance</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 1em;"><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/topics/corporations" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Corporations</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 1em;"><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/topics/democracy" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Democracy</a></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div>==<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Doner_Fundraising">Sourcewatch</a>:<blockquote>Doner Fundraising established by Kate Doner in 2003 in Austin Texas, is a fundraising and event services company "that partners with issue based non-profits, coalitions, corporations, and professional associations" and Republican candidates.Although listed on the site of the State Policy Network and its current newsletter as its event planning consultant, there is no website corresponding to the domain. Her colleague, Elizabeth James, who lists her phone number as the same as Doner Fundraising, has an email address affiliated with Quorum Public Affairs, another Austin strategic public affairs company helping businesses to influence goverment and regulatory policies.[...]A biographical note states that "Doner received her Bachelor’s of Arts from Hillsdale College in Michigan with a double degree in Political Science and History. She is a native of Michigan, has lived in Texas since 1993."She served as Director of Finance for the Texas Public Policy Foundation in 2003.[...]
She managed the Austin fundraising for Texas Representative Joe Nixon in his race for the Texas Senate in 2005. Nixon of Houston chaired the Texas House Civil Practices Committee and was described by Texans for Lawsuit Reform in 2003, in The Advocate as "our one true friend" there and a courageous lawyer." In a news release, Nixon described Doner as "known throughout the state as an Austin fundraising powerhouse....Her client list reads like the who's who of Texas' best known Republican and conservative causes."Doner's comments on tort reform appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of James Madison Institute.Her former husband, John Doner operates John Doner & Associates. His Austin-based firm provides marketing services and consulting for political campaigns, political action committees, grassroots initiatives, and associations since 1989.</blockquote>