Back on October 26th, the Yale Daily News endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
“Long before she became Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, Hillary Diane Rodham was working to make our country a better place,” the Editorial Board wrote. “Almost four decades later, the News is proud to endorse her for president.”
But The Daily Caller reports with that endorsement, the YDN appears to violate Internal Revenue Service regulations:
“According to the organization’s 2014 tax returns (the latest edition publicly available), the Yale Daily News is listed as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, and is ‘operated for literary and educational purposes.’”
The IRS prohibits such groups from “participating or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for public office.”
Despite being seemingly legally prohibited from doing so, the Yale Daily News went ahead and endorsed Hillary Clinton anyway.
“We do not endorse Clinton solely because of the disqualifying flaws of her opponent, Donald Trump, whose campaign has disgusted and astonished our board. Indeed, our endorsement of Clinton should come as no surprise: A recent survey conducted by the News found that a vast majority of students support her candidacy,” the newspaper’s endorsement states.
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“We endorse her because we, as young people, recognize this election is a turning point for our country. And the choice couldn’t be more clear.”
When asked about the newspaper’s tax-exempt status with regards to its endorsement of Hillary Clinton, a spokesman for the paper called the whole matter a “misunderstanding” but repeatedly declined to either confirm or deny that the Yale Daily News is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization.
That being said, the paper was right in your face about it:
“Our editorial board, like those of many college newspapers, expressed an opinion regarding the upcoming national election, as it did in 2004, 2008 and 2012. The editor in chief chose to recuse himself from that process and played no part in the board’s decision to support Hillary Clinton.”
That editor-in-chief, David Shimer, once served as a policy intern for Clinton.
Read the full DC article and YDN endorsement.
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