Barry Rand, the chief executive officer of AARP who donated $8,900 to President Obama’s election campaign in 2008, on Friday told the House Ways and Means Committee that the group was nonpartisan.
“We are a strictly nonpartisan organization,” Rand said at a hearing on the group‘s finances.
Yet as I wrote in my column:
Though it bills itself as a non-partisan group representing the interests of 40 million Americans over 50, the reality is far different. Over the past three election cycles (2006-2010), contributions from individuals who named AARP as their employer went 95 percent to Democrats, according to an analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics. This doesn’t include the $8,900 the group’s CEO, Barry Rand, contributed to Obama before he joined AARP.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/04/aarp-ceo-we-are-strictly-nonpartisan-organization#ixzz1IHV0MNZA
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