Scandal - NOT!

[Baxter]

IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row

The Internal Revenue Service, under pressure after admitting it targeted
anti-tax Tea Party groups for scrutiny in recent years, also had its eye on
at least three Democratic-leaning organizations seeking nonprofit status.

One of those groups, Emerge America, saw its tax-exempt status denied,
forcing it to disclose its donors and pay some taxes. None of the Republican
groups have said their applications were rejected.

http://tinyurl.com/bdxps3f

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[SmilePlease]

On Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:07 -0700, "Baxter"
<baxter.s...@baxcode.com> wrote:

>
>IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row
>
>The Internal Revenue Service, under pressure after admitting it targeted
>anti-tax Tea Party groups for scrutiny in recent years, also had its eye on
>at least three Democratic-leaning organizations seeking nonprofit status.
>
>One of those groups, Emerge America, saw its tax-exempt status denied,
>forcing it to disclose its donors and pay some taxes. None of the Republican
>groups have said their applications were rejected.
>
>http://tinyurl.com/bdxps3f

Well there we go...cops who in the past who have been accused of
targeting blacks when pulling them over..can just say hey I pulled
over a few whites also.

And the high percentages of minority groups in jail cannot be blamed
on the racist cops and racist justice system...the fact that some
whites are in jail proves that.

And now we all know that cigarettes do not cause cancer...we might all
know one or 2 folks who smoked all their lives and died of something
else.

And a few liberal idiots had their requests for exemption denied and
that proves that when not a single tea party request was approved in
2011 that everything is hunky dory.

[Baxter]

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"SmilePlease" <gri...@lister.com> wrote in message
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> And the high percentages of minority groups in jail cannot be blamed
> on the racist cops and racist justice system...the fact that some
> whites are in jail proves that.

Baloney - that there are a few whites in jail does not prove blacks were not
targeted anymore than ...

>
> And now we all know that cigarettes do not cause cancer...we might all
> know one or 2 folks who smoked all their lives and died of something
> else.

... the fact that some smokers died of other causes does not prove
cigarettes do not cause cancer.

> And a few liberal idiots had their requests for exemption denied and
> that proves that when not a single tea party request was approved in
> 2011 that everything is hunky dory.

Actually the Indiana Armstrong Patriots Tea Party group was approved in
2011. But NO Koch-funded astroturf group should have been 501(c)(4)
status.

Do note, that taxes are not at issue as those Tea Party groups are
non-profit -- the only thing at issue whether the groups would be using
that status to illegally finance campaign activity.

[Sancho Panza]

On 5/17/2013 2:10 PM, Baxter wrote:
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> "SmilePlease" <gri...@lister.com> wrote in message
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>> And the high percentages of minority groups in jail cannot be blamed
>> on the racist cops and racist justice system...the fact that some
>> whites are in jail proves that.
>
> Baloney - that there are a few whites in jail does not prove blacks were not
> targeted anymore than ...

Gee, he finally understood a point. Although he doesn't realize it.

[Baxter]

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"Sancho Panza" <otter...@xhotmail.com> wrote in message
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You're slipping, Sancho, it's the "leftists" that have been saying that all
along and you rightards claiming that more blacks were criminals.

[Sancho Panza]

Thanks for reinforcing my subsidiary point.

[Sancho Panza]

And the shameless lying by the chief of the Exempt Organizations Branch
of the IRS poses a really sticky problem for the administration:

"A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS’s Lois Lerner
By Glenn Kessler,

In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it
had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new
information has emerged from both the Treasury Inspector General’s
report and congressional testimony Friday that calls into question key
statements made by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS’s director of the exempt
organizations division.

The clumsy way the IRS disclosed the issue as well as Lerner’s press
briefing by phone were seen at the time as a public relations disaster.
But even so, it is worth reviewing three key statements made by Lerner
and comparing them to the facts that have since emerged.

“But between 2010 and 2012 we started seeing a very big uptick in
the number of 501(c)(4) applications we were receiving and many of these
organizations applying more than doubled, about 1500 in 2010 and over
3400 in 2012.”

Lerner made this comment while issuing a seemingly impromptu apology at
an American Bar Association panel (it was later learned that this was a
planted question—more on that below.) In her telling, the tax-exempt
branch was simply overwhelmed by applications and so unfortunate
shortcuts were taken.

But this claim of “more than doubled” appears to be a red herring. The
targeting of groups began in early 2010, after the Supreme Court’s
decision in Citizen’s United was announced on Jan. 21. The ruling paved
the way for political groups to apply under a tax-exempt status known as
501(c)4. Most charities apply under 501(c)3, but under 501(c)4 nonprofit
groups that engage in “social welfare” can also perform a limited amount
of election activity.

At first glance, the Inspector General’s report appears to show that the
number of 501(c)(4) applications actually went down that year, from
1,751 in 2009 to 1,735.

But it turns out that these are federal fiscal-year figures, meaning
“2010” is actually Oct. 1, 2009 to Sept. 30, 2010, so the “2010” year
includes more than three months before the Supreme Court decision was
announced.

Astonishingly, despite Lerner’s public claim, an IRS spokeswoman was not
able to provide the actual calendar year numbers. By allocating
one-quarter of the fiscal year numbers to the prior year, we can get a
very rough sense of the increase on a calendar-year basis.(Figures are
rounded to avoid false precision; 2012 is not possible to calculate):
2009: 1745
2010: 1865
2011: 2540

In other words, while there was an increase in 2010, it was relatively
small. The real jump did not come until 2011, long after the targeting
of conservative groups had been implemented. Also, it appears Lerner
significantly understated the number of applications in 2010 (“1500”) in
order to make her claim of “more than doubled.”
“I think you guys were reading the paper as much as I was. So it
was pretty much we started seeing information in the press that raised
questions for us and we went back and took a look.”

Here, Lerner suggests that she only found out about this issue when news
reports appeared in February and March 2012 about tea party groups
complaining that they were being targeted. But the IG timeline shows
this claim to be false. According the IG, Lerner had a briefing on the
issue on June 29, 2011, in which she was told about the BOLO (“Be On the
Look Out”) criteria that included phrases such as “Tea Party” or
“Patriots.” The report says she raised concerns about the wording and
“instructed that the criteria be immediately revised.” She continued to
be heavily involved in the issue in the months preceding the new
reports, according to the timeline.
“I don’t believe anyone ever asked me that question before.”

This was Lerner’s excuse during the media call for why she had not
publicly addressed the issue before. But in congressional testimony
Friday, former acting director Steven T. Miller said he had discussed
with Lerner about arranging to make a statement at a May 10 conference
sponsored by the American Bar Association, knowing that the IG report
would soon be released. Lerner then contacted a friend, Celia Roady, a
tax attorney with the Washington firm Morgan Lewis, to ask a question
about the targeting, according to a statement by Roady on Friday. (Roady
had previously denied this was a planted question when asked directly by
participants at the meeting.)

So Lerner was dissembling when she suggested that a simple well-aimed
question prompted the disclosure. In fact, just two days before the ABA
conference, Lerner appeared before Congress and was asked about the
status of investigations into 501(c)(4) companies by Rep. Joe Crowley
(D-N.Y.). She provided a bland answer about a questionnaire on the IRS
Web site, failing to take the opportunity to disclose the results of the
probe. (The clip is embedded below, with the question coming at 5:09.)
Small wonder that Crowley is now calling for her to resign, saying that
Lerner lied to him. http://www.youtube.com/embed/8kZABHzFa-4?rel=0”
frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen

We gave the IRS the weekend to provide a response. A spokeswoman said
they were not able to offer an explanation for Lerner’s remarks in time
for our deadline.
The Pinocchio Test
In some ways, this is just scratching the surface of Lerner’s
misstatements and weasely wording when the revelations about the IRS’s
activities first came to light on May 10. But, taken together, it’s
certainly enough to earn her four Pinocchios." --washingtonpost.com