One might well ask why LWV was receiving funding for environmental issues education. But in addition, these highly fungible grants probably helped the League to shift funds to its other activities. Since its founding, LWV representatives have claimed to be strictly nonpartisan, though not necessarily nonpolitical. As the League web site reveals, the group doesn't make candidate endorsements or support political parties. But the League has become an adjunct to the Democratic Party because it rallies for causes that are central to liberal-left politics.
Nonprofits effectively become mouthpieces for the federal agencies from which they receive funding.
Nonprofit Reform LWV's lobbying serves a multitude of narrow special interests, not the broad common interest. In short, there should be no federal money for advocacy. It's simply time to stop subsidizing the political agendas of such groups. Not only has LWV strayed from its mission, but it is also guilty of behavior that Jefferson condemned. Jared B. Adams is a policy analyst at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia.