The Catskill Mountainkeeper, a tax-exempt charity under Federal and New York State law, is engaging in blatant lobbying although it says it does almost none.

One of our readers forwarded me a Catskill Mountainkeeper emailer this morning and made a very good point; “I think they should lose tax exempt status if they are telling or advising their members how to vote. This is what I am cautioned about at church.” He’s correct, of course.

He was referring to the fact the emailer, written by Katherine Nadeau, wife of Politico reporter Jimmy Vielkind, specifically urged Catskill Mountainkeeper members how to vote on two ballot proposals. Yet, the Catskill Mountainkeeper, a part of the NRDC gang, told the IRS it only spends $225 per year on grass-roots lobbying which is, of course, exactly what the emailer is.

Here’s the email message from Nadeau, who now serves as Deputy Director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, one the Rockefeller family’s pack of attack dogs:

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