Lawyers Unite To Keep Dark Money Dark
The result was a slew of stories like this one in the Daily Beast titled Mitt Romney Secretly Supported Anti-Gay Marriage Group. In my mind it was not much of a secret or much of a story for that matter. Even though the report of the money going into NOM was not public record, the money going out of the Romney PAC ($10,000) was public record. A Romney PAC spending ten grand opposing same sex marriage shocking, shocking.
Taxpayer Beats Idaho On Domicile But Loses On Community Property
It turns out that Washington treats spousal earnings as separate property when a couple is living apart, but only if the separation is due to marital discord, which was not present in this case. All in for three years, Idaho ended up getting a little over $13,000 from Martha rather than the approximately $30,000, they were hoping to get from George.
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