Why Does the Grammy Foundation Need Taxpayer Money

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/az06_flake/022403_Grammy.html ^

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Non-profit foundations need to be careful when it comes to making political statements or else they can lose their non-profit status.

[DBrow]

Let me throw this out- 800G means that the government has a stake in the grammys, and the 800G can be taken away if the folks running it don't behave. Sort of like highway funds tied to education programs.

Listen to all the rumors going around that the committee asked all the performers not to use their stage time as an anti-war protest. The guys running the show maybe wanted to keep getting the 800,000 bucks?

Money can be a leash as well as a tool and how much is it worth to prevent Bono and Crow from using the airtime for their own purposes? Of course Clinton had the same leash, as did Bush I.

$800,000 is less than one Superbowl ad spot.