The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Should Put Up or Shut Up

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
 
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is weighing in on the Fair Political Practices Commission today when it meets to consider new rules for the disclosure of expenses by political candidates, calling for "explanations" of the expenses far beyond what the state watchdog agency is proposing.
 
Yet this so-called "taxpayer and consumer group" refuses to provide any information to the press or to the state about who its donors are.
 
So in other words, do as we say, not as we do.
 
You would think that an organization that pretends to represent taxpayers and consumers would adhere to the same principles that it is calling for others to follow.
 
You'd think they'd own up to being a front for the California Nurses Association (which, as reported here, reported through their mandatory reporting that they've given the Foundation hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years) on the health care bill. Or Lord knows who else from the special interest world has helped fund their fact-deprived press conferences and media stunts.
 
But no.
 
It appears that the Foundation continues to live in its glass house: an organization with no members that are consumers or taxpayers, and failing to provide the very transparency they are calling on others to have.