The IRS blinks!

[Dave007inVegas]

WASHINGTON – Just 24 hours before the Tea Party Patriots would testify before Congress, the IRS finally granted the group its 501(c)(4) status, but the agency continues to stifle the political freedom of 17 similar organizations by being unresponsive to their status requests.

The Tea Party Patriots first applied for nonprofit status three years ago.

Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin received the news Wednesday, just before she was to appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has been investigating IRS targeting of conservative and tea-party groups.

“To me, it may be an attempt to undermine testimony in the next couple weeks,” said Jordan Sekulow, lead council for the American Center for Law and Justice, or ACLJ.

The ACLJ is currently engaged in litigation against the IRS and key officials on behalf of 41 conservative groups from 22 states, 17 of which have yet to receive 501(c)(4) status.

Some say the timing of the IRS was suspect.

 

[NFLTrends]

WASHINGTON – Just 24 hours before the Tea Party Patriots would testify before Congress, the IRS finally granted the group its 501(c)(4) status, but the agency continues to stifle the political freedom of 17 similar organizations by being unresponsive to their status requests.

The Tea Party Patriots first applied for nonprofit status three years ago.

Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin received the news Wednesday, just before she was to appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has been investigating IRS targeting of conservative and tea-party groups.

“To me, it may be an attempt to undermine testimony in the next couple weeks,” said Jordan Sekulow, lead council for the American Center for Law and Justice, or ACLJ.

The ACLJ is currently engaged in litigation against the IRS and key officials on behalf of 41 conservative groups from 22 states, 17 of which have yet to receive 501(c)(4) status.

Some say the timing of the IRS was suspect.

Are there any accounts of any Liberal/Democrat groups that were denied/delayed the same status? Would like to hear both sides.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Are there any accounts of any Liberal/Democrat groups that were denied/delayed the same status? Would like to hear both sides.

Russell George, the Treasury Department official who detailed the IRS targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, says liberal groups faced far less scrutiny from the agency.

George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, told Democratic Rep. Sandy Levin of Michigan in a letter that just six progressive groups were targeted compared to 292 conservative groups, reports the Washington Examiner.

 

[NFLTrends]

Russell George, the Treasury Department official who detailed the IRS targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, says liberal groups faced far less scrutiny from the agency.

George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, told Democratic Rep. Sandy Levin of Michigan in a letter that just six progressive groups were targeted compared to 292 conservative groups, reports the Washington Examiner.

That's quite a disparity between the number of targeted groups. Why isn't this a bigger issue? Obviously one group was targeting another, and it seems the media doesn't care. We should all be up in arms about this. Why is one group targeted so much, while another so little? Has to be a plausible reason....

 

[BleedingPurple]

That's quite a disparity between the number of targeted groups. Why isn't this a bigger issue? Obviously one group was targeting another, and it seems the media doesn't care. We should all be up in arms about this. Why is one group targeted so much, while another so little? Has to be a plausible reason....

The media was on top of this early but swept it under the rug. I have a feeling the Media doesn't really care for the Tea Party. I'm not a fan of them either but being targeted was wrong.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

That's quite a disparity between the number of targeted groups. Why isn't this a bigger issue? Obviously one group was targeting another, and it seems the media doesn't care. We should all be up in arms about this. Why is one group targeted so much, while another so little? Has to be a plausible reason....

You just answered your own question.

P.S. Nice score in the LVH contest.

 

[GasMan]

Because the left are losers that don't care as long as they win elections.

Scumbags to the core, most all of them. (- Judge Wapner).

 

[The Guesser]

Russell George, the Treasury Department official who detailed the IRS targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, says liberal groups faced far less scrutiny from the agency.

George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, told Democratic Rep. Sandy Levin of Michigan in a letter that just six progressive groups were targeted compared to 292 conservative groups, reports the Washington Examiner.

This Russell George??? Might not be the objective guy that one side painted him as. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...tion-of-irs-watchdog-who-led-targeting-probe/

 

[SmallDaddy]

WASHINGTON – Just 24 hours before the Tea Party Patriots would testify before Congress, the IRS finally granted the group its 501(c)(4) status, but the agency continues to stifle the political freedom of 17 similar organizations by being unresponsive to their status requests.

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I cant believe that after all this time people still think that the IRS muzzles these groups. Like shutting them up and/or shutting them down.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

When the political theater gets to be too much for House Oversight Committee chair Darrell Issa, that's a lot of political theater. The Republican congressman wanted to hear the testimony of Lois Lerner, the former IRS official who has long been target No. 1 in the GOP-led investigation into the IRS's extra scrutiny of tax exempt organizations with certain keywords in their names. Lerner once again pleaded the Fifth, prompting Issa to say he could "see no point in going further" with the hearing if Lerner wouldn't play ball. But ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings had a lot to say about the hearing itself.

Cummings framed his statement as a procedural question, but Issa didn't seem to want to hear it. The committee chair motioned for Cummings's mic to be cut (it was), and the Democratic congressman ended up shouting the rest of his take on the IRS investigation. "You cannot just have a one-sided investigation," Cummings said, adding that the congressional queries into the IRS's handling of tax-exempt organizations "ha found no evidence to support allegations of a political conspiracy against conservative groups." Eventually, Issa left the room. "What are you hiding?" Cummings said to Issa as he turned his back. "He's taking the Fifth, Elijah," quipped Rep. Gerry Connolly.

Your tax dollars at work.

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