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Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance pretends it's a TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATION to EDUCATE VOTERS which it is NOT.  The GLOSSY MAILINGS contain inaccurate information and SMEARS, promoting political action, targeting effective Democratic legislators.  It's time to end the SLEAZY CHARADE and provide transparency. Complaint seeks to force Mass. Fiscal Alliance disclosure The Lowell Sun By Michael P. Norton STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BOSTON -- Lawmakers who say they've been targeted recently in their districts by the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance plan to call on state regulators Tuesday to force the non-profit group to register as a political committee and disclose its donors. A complaint, obtained by the News Service and signed by Sen. Jamie Eldridge (D-Acton) and Rep. Natalie Higgins (D-Leominster), cites an alliance mailer sent to Leominster voters that was critical of Higgins. Letters were also sent to selectmen and city councilors in Eldridge's district knockin...

THE ARTICLE BELOW IS FROM 2014 WHEN MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE WAS MISREPRESENTING AN ISSUE RATHER THAN INFORMING VOTERS. SOME MIGHT CALL IT A LIE.  DO THEY DESERVE TAX-EXEMPT 501c(4) STATUS AND THE RIGHT TO CONCEAL THEIR DONORS?  What Is Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance’s Problem? The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance has been taking heat over its 'voter education' materials, and deservedly so. by  DAVID S. BERNSTEIN   ·  9/23/2014 In mailings, newspaper ads, and other materials, the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance has been claiming, with the weakest of justifications, that certain targeted state legislators voted to prioritize illegal immigrants over veterans for public housing. That’s a crock. They did no such thing. I feel pretty confident saying that, because I asked the guy who sponsored the amendment at issue, state representative Geoff Diehl. “Have the people who voted against it prioritized immigrants over veterans for housin...