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Judge: Anti-GMO activists illegally concealed donors’ names
http://www.capitalpress.com/Washington/20160422/judge-anti-gmo-activists-illegally-concealed-donors-names"An anti-GMO organization violated Washington’s public disclosure law by concealing the names of more than 7,000 donors who contributed in 2013 to an initiative that would have required food makers to label products with genetically engineered ingredients, a judge ruled Friday.
Food Democracy Now, based in Iowa, didn’t register as a political-action committee or report until after the election the sources of the $200,000 it contributed to the Yes on Initiative 522 campaign.
Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor rejected arguments that Food Democracy was a short-staffed non-profit and naive to Washington’s political laws.
“They were able to get huge interest, with 7,000 people donating,” he said. “This is not an insubstantial amount of money that was contributed.”
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Hypocrisy in action.
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While screaming about "Monsatan." 