Title: AARP Is Officially Nonpartisan but Group Officials’ Money Mostly Goes to Dems
Headings: AARP Is Officially Nonpartisan but Group Officials’ Money Mostly Goes to Dems
Politics
AARP Is Officially Nonpartisan but Group Officials’ Money Mostly Goes to Dems

Content: Burns gave $1,250 to Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-N.Y.), plus $350 to Act Blue. Clinton received another $750 from AARP Senior Strategic Policy Adviser Andrea Brassard, who also gave $492 to Act Blue, while Deborah Chalfie, an AARP senior legislative representative, made multiple gifts to Democratic candidates, totaling $4,135. The AARP said in a statement to The Epoch Times on July 22 that the group “is completely nonpartisan and does not make any financial contributions to any political candidates, office holders or parties, nor does the organization endorse any political candidates, office holders or parties.” The statement continued: “ AARP does not preclude its employees, including board members, from exercising their personal right to participate in the political process. “As such, AARP employees are permitted to make lawful contributions, on a personal basis, to political candidates, if they so wish. “However, they are prohibited from engaging in any personal political activity using AARP resources of any type, or to engage in any personal political activity during work hours.” Conspicuously absent from among the AARP political contributors was Jo Ann Jenkins, the chief executive officer. Her predecessor as CEO, Addison Barry Rand, gave $4,300 to Obama for America and $2,000 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008. Rand actively backed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Barack Obama’s controversial health care legislation, also known as Obamacare.