Dem Congressman takes apart tea party whiner

LOL

How would you like them crawling up your butt for just trying to start a TEA PARTY GROUP ..............................

They have functions that are needed...........Not the targeting of political group...........They believe they are the law and above it.................Not all of them, but those who participated on direct targeting of groups who don't agree with the current administration.

Is the '.' button stuck on your keyboard? There's this spray you can buy, CRC. Works great for that kind of thing.

I have posted that way for a long time.............If it offends you or if you are sensitive to this......................................................I suggest you call the spelling and grammar police to issue me a ticket.......................................................k.......................

I'm just messing with you. Touchy, touchy. That CRC is great stuff though. One can get it from the auto parts store. It is a spray that dissolves junk from electronics but does not harm the hardware itself.
 
looking for dirt? :lol: It was an OSHA inspection you hack/s. The fed is low on Inspectors in all agencies in no small part to GOP cutting funding, no doubt. USDA is a good example. How many meat inspectors do we have for the 100's/1000's of slaughter houses in this country? VERY few relative to the number of slaughter houses.

It's a little coincidential that they all started coming in one after another. I know it's a tea partier so you don't care about this case. However, this abuse of power is reversed many times against liberals. Corrupt politicial will do whatever they can to silience their opposition.

You should be against because silencing the opposition by government agencies hurts everyone.
 
LOL

I've used CRC on electrical components, and if you buy the wrong kind it melts plastics.........Most use compressed air cans to clean a keyboard................

Just be careful when using certain types of CRC's.........they melt the plastics.
 
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf

This started the whole ball rolling...........In their investigation they found groups who had not been processed in over 3 years............

PERIOD.

Yes, and if one reads that documents it is clearly an internal document where the IRS audited itself and found their process flawed. There was no outside influence into the process. Blaming Obama for "yet another conspiracy" is placing the blame for misinformation on the wrong source, as usual.
 
LOL

I've used CRC on electrical components, and if you buy the wrong kind it melts plastics.........Most use compressed air cans to clean a keyboard................

Just be careful when using certain types of CRC's.........they melt the plastics.

Thank you. I did not know that. I guess I have just been lucky getting the right can each time.
 
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf

This started the whole ball rolling...........In their investigation they found groups who had not been processed in over 3 years............

PERIOD.

Yes, and if one reads that documents it is clearly an internal document where the IRS audited itself and found their process flawed. There was no outside influence into the process. Blaming Obama for "yet another conspiracy" is placing the blame for misinformation on the wrong source, as usual.

Which part of 3 years and thousands of documents submitted don't you understand...........

Which part of the IRS admitting cough cough they made mistakes and apologized for them don't you understand.........................

Which part of individuals being audited by the IRS after submitting tax free claims don't you understand.........

Lois Lerner admitted in a video already posted that she was told to do something about these groups spending lots of money on political ads...........She stated it in that video........................
 
501 c 3

Three. Not c 4.

True the Vote wants to be treated as a CHARITY.

They want people who contribute to them to able to write off their contributions as tax deductible.

I.R.C. § 501(c)(3) charitable organizations are prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office (hereafter referred to as political campaign intervention).

Here's an example of their "non-partisanship."

"Verify the Recall" May Have Been Political Intervention

The group's participation in the Wisconsin "Verify the Recall" effort is one example.
501(c)(3) charities may conduct activities like voter registration or get-out-the-vote drives, as long as there is no bias against a particular candidate.

But True the Vote's rhetoric surrounding its recall petition "verification" activities made it clear which side they supported. Blog posts, for example, suggested "massive fraud" by Democrats in the recall petition effort and exclaimed that "we should not believe the claims of union-supporters and anti-Walker operatives who say that they collected more than one million signatures on petitions to recall Governor Scott Walker."

And the True the Vote / Verify the Recall findings were, at best, extremely sloppy: True the Vote alleged that recall proponents failed to collect enough valid signatures, but even a cursory review of their analysis showed that many of the rejected signatures were entirely legitimate -- perhaps indicating the true goal was to discredit the recall effort rather than "verify" anything.


After recall petitions were collected and turned in, the Walker campaign refused to challenge any signatures, and instead asked the state elections board to accept challenges from Verify the Recall (which the board rejected, since there is no basis in state law for accepting such third-party challenges).


True the Vote's position on the recall effort, and the Walker campaign essentially accepting their work as an in-kind campaign contribution, raise legitimate questions about whether this is appropriate activity for a non-partisan, non-political charity.

And True the Vote appeared to recognize this and tried distancing itself from the Verify the Recall effort.
"True the Vote," the Victim? Voter Vigilante Group Says IRS Targeted Its "Verify the Recall" Effort in Wisconsin | PR Watch

You think perhaps shit like this might lead to greater scrutiny for an org that wants to be treated as a tax deductible CHARITY?
 
Texas Judge: True the Vote's Parent Organization is a "GOP Front Group"

Questions about whether True the Vote is really a "charity" did not start with Verify the Recall: the group's partisan roots have shown almost from the beginning.


A 2010 video announcing True the Vote's launch begins with right-wing activist David Horowitz telling the camera "Republicans have to win by at least three percent in order to win an election," since Democrats are so likely to cast fraudulent votes.


The video, which features white activists warning of rampant voter fraud, also featured an image of an African-American woman holding a sign that had been doctored to say "I only got to vote once." In the original photograph, the sign read "don't mess with my vote." (The image was later cut from the video).


A few months after the video and True the Vote's launch, in the November 2010 elections, the group dispatched its "poll watchers" to districts in Harris County, Texas where most voters were African-American or Latino.



They found no hard evidence of intentional voter fraud, but the poll watchers did draw accusations of voter intimidation from election officials, with volunteers "hovering" behind people as they cast their ballot, "getting into election worker's faces," and blocking or disrupting lines of voters.


After those elections, the Civil Rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into the group and its alleged voter intimidation efforts."


"True the Vote," the Victim? Voter Vigilante Group Says IRS Targeted Its "Verify the Recall" Effort in Wisconsin | PR Watch
 
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For the newcomers who might have missed it:

Poor baby. Waaaa. OSHA visited us only once in 20 years, found serious violations, and even allowed us to negotiate down the fine.

Waaaaaa!

Oh, and lookie here - the big bajingle about getting visted by the FBI?

FBI officials said Engelbrecht was not under investigation.

"Pursuant to FBI policy, it would not be appropriate to comment on the nature of routine contacts made in the course of FBI business. I would caution you from assuming there would be an investigation simply because contact is alleged. Our agents talk with hundreds of people each week in the course of our work. Often, the contact may be as simple as a phone call. We routinely and pro-actively engage the public, and more importantly, have an obligation to do so in matters of mutual interest," FBI Special Agent Shauna Dunlap wrote in a response to Local 2 Investigates.


So she wasn't investigated, she was contacted. Hmmm. Ms. Fishy Fish...what up next?


Oh the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms contacted you you say. MY! That's curious. Now why would they do that?


Let's see....hmmmm....


In addition to the FBI contacts, the Engelbrecht's business was also inspected twice by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Once in 2012 and again in 2013.



Engelbrecht said she and her husband were considering diversifying the business and in 2009 the company secured a federal license to manufacture gun parts. However, Engelbrecht said the company has not yet begun manufacturing those parts.


An ATF spokesperson told Local 2 since the business received its license in 2009, the Bureau needed to conduct an inspection within a three year period, as is routine for other similar businesses.

While prohibited from discussing the specifics of an inspection, an ATF spokesperson said the 2013 inspection was either a separate inspection or a follow-up to the first inspection because deficiencies were noted. However, the ATF said a follow-up inspection would be of an "educational, not punitive" nature.
Houston-area couple questions federal, state scrutiny | News - Home

Engelbrecht = big fat lying pile of duplicitous goo.

^ that

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http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf

This started the whole ball rolling...........In their investigation they found groups who had not been processed in over 3 years............

PERIOD.

Yes, and if one reads that documents it is clearly an internal document where the IRS audited itself and found their process flawed. There was no outside influence into the process. Blaming Obama for "yet another conspiracy" is placing the blame for misinformation on the wrong source, as usual.

Which part of 3 years and thousands of documents submitted don't you understand...........

Which part of the IRS admitting cough cough they made mistakes and apologized for them don't you understand.........................

Which part of individuals being audited by the IRS after submitting tax free claims don't you understand.........

Lois Lerner admitted in a video already posted that she was told to do something about these groups spending lots of money on political ads...........She stated it in that video........................

For starters, how any of that has anything to do with the Obama administration.
 
Yes, and if one reads that documents it is clearly an internal document where the IRS audited itself and found their process flawed. There was no outside influence into the process. Blaming Obama for "yet another conspiracy" is placing the blame for misinformation on the wrong source, as usual.

Which part of 3 years and thousands of documents submitted don't you understand...........

Which part of the IRS admitting cough cough they made mistakes and apologized for them don't you understand.........................

Which part of individuals being audited by the IRS after submitting tax free claims don't you understand.........

Lois Lerner admitted in a video already posted that she was told to do something about these groups spending lots of money on political ads...........She stated it in that video........................

For starters, how any of that has anything to do with the Obama administration.

Absolutely nothing if his job is to only play golf.
 
So get a load of this. Engelbrecht wants to be deemed a CHARITY - and people who want to give money to True the Vote get a tax deduction.

IRS rules are clear on the line of no political engagement (as I posted above) --

So, here in this case, a person could contribute to the Republican Party -- tax freeeee!

Golden, innit?

Nonpartisan? True the Vote gave $5,000 to Republican State Leadership Committee

Amidst the media coverage and controversy, True the Vote and its leader, Catherine Engelbrecht, have been vehement on one point: True the Vote is "nonpartisan."

In a recent New York Times story, Engelbrecht insisted the group's work had no partisan political aims: “It is not about party or politics; it is about principle." In its press releases, True the Vote describes itself as a "nonpartisan election integrity organization."

The bottom of the group's donation page also claims that "True the Vote is a non-profit corporation pending 501(c)(3) determination under the Internal Revenue Code." The IRS expressly prohibits 501(c)(3) organizations from engaging in political activity.

But in August 2012, True the Vote gave money to a group with unquestionably partisan goals: the Republican State Leadership Committee.

According to the committee's IRS tax filings, on August 17, 2012, True the Vote contributed $5,000 to the RSLC. Here is a pdf of the RSLC's August IRS report; below is a screenshot of the contribution record:
TTVRSLC.jpg

The Republican State Leadership Committee is a so-called 527 political organization that describes itself this way: "The RSLC is the largest caucus of Republican state leaders and the only national organization whose mission is to elect down ballot, state-level Republican office-holders."
 
WTF is wrong with the idiots on here?

True The Vote is run by the Cock Brothers! Of course they're crooked.
 
The Ballot Cops

Thirty years ago, the Republican National Committee was accused of violating the Voting Rights Act and ordered to cease its “ballot security” efforts. Now an organization called True the Vote wants to pick up where the RNC left off, by building a nationwide army to root out voter fraud—or, some would say, to suppress voter turnout.
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This is the kind of shit True the Vote pulls:

Two weeks later, on Election Day, poll watchers streamed into poor black and Latino precincts around Racine, hunting for evidence that people were cheating. They didn’t find much, though D’Abbraccio later claimed otherwise, apparently in a bid for a recount in a state-Senate race.

(Racine’s sheriff investigated the allegations but found no evidence of fraud.) Reports of voter intimidation, however, abounded. Carolyn Castore, the Wisconsin election coordinator for the League of Women Voters, told me that her organization received more than 50 reports from Racine-area voters complaining that True the Vote volunteers had hovered over registration tables and aggressively challenged voters’ eligibility. (In previous years, it had fielded only half a dozen or so complaints about observers.)

Other reports had poll watchers tailing vans that were transporting voters to the polls, snapping photos of voters’ license plates, even directing voters to the wrong polling places.

The Ballot Cops - Mariah Blake - The Atlantic
 
Lois Lerner approved exemption for Obama brother's 'charity' | The Daily Caller

Tax-exempt Obama Foundation doesn't exist at listed address | The Daily Caller

Lois lerner approved this tax free within a month while all of this was going on...........According to these articles.....................

Address shown as a PO Box.................

Amazing isn't it.

You keep going on about Lois Lerner.

She was hired during the Bush administration.

You do know that right?
 

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