If it's conservative, they'll trash it. If it's centrist, they'll ridicule it.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Inc. (CREW)
1400 Eye St, N.W.
Ste 450
Washington, DC 20005
2008 Income: $3,048,889
2008 Assets: $2,860,948
www.citizensforethics.org/
Phone: (202) 408-5565
EIN: 03-0445391
Exempt since: 2002
Founded: Incorporated May 13, 2002 in Delaware by Democrat activists Louis Mayberg, Mark Penn, and Daniel Berger through a hired Registered Agent company, The Corporation Trust Company. CREW has claimed that attorney Norm Eisen was also a co-founder, but his name does not appear on any founding document or any Form 990. The first donation was a $25,000 grant from the Tides Foundation, the only income in 2002.
Registered in the District of Columbia: Registered March 15, 2006, Melanie Sloan, Registered Agent. Sloan had been the loud-mouthed executive director since 2002.
IRS Exempt purpose: Organization's purpose is to work for honest, open and truthful government by bringing legal actions, conducting research and educating the public.
Self-Description: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington uses high-impact legal actions to target government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests.
Actual: a far-left Democrat social-change attack group targeting Republicans and centrist Democrats in Congress and conservative non-profit groups. "[Democracy]Alliance officials see CREW as a possible counterweight to conservative-leaning Judicial Watch, which filed numerous lawsuits against Clinton administration officials in the 1990s." Washington Post CREW's Executive Director Melanie Sloan has become a mighty mouth in Washington for her zingers, pretentious outrages, and legal complaints about everybody else's ethics, but her own group has done a few things that bend the rules too.......To Read More....
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