May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ABC NEWS Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations. In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an November 30, ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TOWNHALL Remember what we were told when this explosive story first broke less than a week ago? The IRS official in charge of tax exemptions for organizations said the improper methods employed within her division were executed by "low level workers" in Cincinnati who weren't motivated by "political bias," and impacted roughly 75 ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - Rep. Sander Levin (D.-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, has joined Rep. Dave Camp (R.-Mich.), the committee chairman, in demanding that the Internal Revenue Service answer by next Tuesday thirteen questions posed by the committee relating to IRS discrimination against conservative and pro-Israel groups and, ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls. It asked for printouts of Facebook posts And it asked what books people were reading. A POLITICO review of documents from 11 tea party and conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency wanted to know everything — in some ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER IRS managers delayed approval of Tea Party requests for routine tax exemptions by assigning all of them to a single employee in Cincinnati for special review, according to footnote 14 of the blockbuster Inspector General report. The single employee was the only person working on the reviews for at least 18 months. From ...
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May 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DENVER POST WASHINGTON — At least two Colorado Tea Party groups believe they were caught up in a politically targeted campaign by the Internal Revenue Service to make it hard for small, conservative groups to incorporate as tax-exempt organizations. The Western Slope Conservative Alliance and the Colorado Tea Party Patriots applied for 501(c)4 — ...
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May 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNN -- The Internal Revenue Service deliberately targeted groups with "tea party" in their names and who were applying for federal tax exempt status, delaying processing of their applications and requesting unnecessary information, according to an advance copy of a report by the agency's inspector general obtained Tuesday by CNN. The report found that for ...
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May 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The Department of Justice is launching a probe into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party groups, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday. “I have ordered an investigation to be begun. The FBI is coordinating with the Justice Department to see if any laws were broken in connection with those matters related ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO The White House counsel's office was informed in April of an inspector general's review of the Internal Revenue Service, press secretary Jay Carney said Monday. Carney told reporters that the counsel's office was told of the examination into the targeting of conservative groups during the week of April 22, but not given details ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from DAILY MAIL The Internal Revenue Service wrote to the Richmond Tea Party last year demanding to know the names of all its financial donors and volunteers, as part of a 55-question inquisition into its application for tax-exempt status, MailOnline has learned. The agency wanted to know 'the names of the donors, contributors, and grantors' for ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL REVIEW Let me begin with your IRS question of the day — presented to a Tennessee conservative group: List each past or present board member, officer, key employee and members of their families who: a) Has served on the board of another organization. ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ProPublica The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year. The IRS did not respond to requests Monday following up about that release, and whether it had determined how the applications ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER On Monday morning, ABC News reported that “The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week. …” Accompanying its story, ABC has posted a draft IRS inspector general report. Below, I’ve collected a list of the factors in applications for tax-exempt ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Republicans want heads to roll in the wake of revelations that the Internal Revenue Service inappropriately targeted conservative groups for further scrutiny, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is asking Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to begin with the current IRS Commissioner. “It is clear the IRS cannot operate with even a shred of ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO Tea party groups on Monday are threatening to sue the Internal Revenue Service after the agency admitted last week that it wrongly targeted conservative groups applying for nonprofit status. “We are looking at it pretty seriously,” said Dan Becker, a lawyer who represents a half dozen conservative groups targeted by the IRS, including ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ABC NEWS The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report obtained by ABC News. As we reported on “Good Morning America” this morning, the IRS began targeting “Tea Party or similar organizations” in March 2010. That ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The largest Tea Party group in the country said Monday an apology from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for targeting conservative organizations isn’t enough. “A simple apology on a conference call is not enough by a long-shot,” Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, told Fox News. “Congress needs to investigate ...
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May 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight has thrown down an investigative gauntlet to the Internal Revenue Service, demanding that the agency hand over by next Wednesday every communication in its records that includes the words “tea party,” “patriot” or “conservative.” The committee is also demanding of the IRS that ...
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May 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
The following is a February 2012 request for information from the IRS to the Waco Tea Party, one of many controversial letters sent from the IRS to conservative groups. Via FOX NEWS
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May 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER An Internal Revenue Service spokeswoman told reporters on a hastily-arranged conference call Friday that employees targeting Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny during the 2012 election weren't acting out of political bias, but she couldn't name any groups with less conservative-sounding names. “I only said that because I never like to ...
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May 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS Tea Party leaders refused to accept an apology from the IRS Friday in which the agency acknowledged that it inappropriately flagged conservative groups for additional review during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots, said she wants to ...
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May 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NEWSBUSTERS Comcast is holding a shareholder meeting in Philadelphia next week, and the Tea Party is planning a protest of the company's so-called news outlets NBC and MSNBC. FreedomWorks recently sent the following email message out to 60,000 Tea Partiers around Philadelphia (published with permission): Cable provider Comcast is actively supporting ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) told students at Rider University that conservatives are wrong to make deficit reduction a priority. Speaking at the univeristy’s Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics on April 3, Pallone said the "right wing" -- is wrong: “Bottom line is that the right wing, and I say the Tea Party, ...
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