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Holder to brief black pastors on campaign 2012
The Washington Examiner ^ | May 29, 2012 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 05/29/2012 12:45:38 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Attorney General Eric Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU will brief several hundred pastors in the African American community on how to participate in the presidential election -- which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help President Obama's campaign.

"We will have representatives from nine denominations who actually pastor somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10 million people, and we're going to first of all equip them with the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501c3 status with the IRS," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., told MSNBC today.

"In fact, we're going to have the IRS administrator there, we're going to have the Attorney General Eric Holder there, we're going to have the lawyers' organization from around the country, the ACLU -- all giving ministers guidance about what they can and cannot do," he noted.

(Excerpt) Read more at campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bho2012; blackchurch; blackvote; holder
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1 posted on 05/29/2012 12:45:45 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wouldn’t it be quicker to simply phone them and tell them “We will prosecute NOTHING you do, including physical acts of violence, murder, fraud, anything.”


2 posted on 05/29/2012 12:49:09 PM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Wanna bet there isn't anything at all these dudes cannot say - also, betting they can "pass the plate" for candidates of their "choice."

Hope "The Hutch" is one of those black pastors attending to get his "marchin' orders" from Holder.

3 posted on 05/29/2012 12:49:48 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: Lazamataz

Well, this article proves that they won’t be prosecuted for racism.

Where are all the civility police crying out for the separation of church and state?


4 posted on 05/29/2012 12:54:01 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Imagine if John Ashcroft did the same with conservative white pastors.


5 posted on 05/29/2012 12:54:42 PM PDT by Freestate316
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The first lady is correct, racism does still exist. This is a good example of it.


6 posted on 05/29/2012 12:57:08 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Shouldn’t these pastor’s churches have their not-tax status revoked?


7 posted on 05/29/2012 12:58:13 PM PDT by jrg
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To: Free ThinkerNY

WTH

FUBO

FUEH


8 posted on 05/29/2012 12:58:43 PM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Holder. Don’t you have some guns to run?


9 posted on 05/29/2012 1:02:43 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Restriction of Political Campaign Intervention by Section 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Organizations

http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=163395,00.html


10 posted on 05/29/2012 1:02:50 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Told you there was no separation of Church and State
11 posted on 05/29/2012 1:02:59 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Collusion? If it is not illegal, it is bad form.

What would DoJ have things to do with pastors? And why only black ones at that? Sending drones after them?

New meaning to the Lady Justice being blind.


12 posted on 05/29/2012 1:03:23 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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What they can do: Criticize whites, Republicans, Conservatives, the TEA party, Rush, Bush and the Vatican.
What they can't do: Criticize blacks (especially the won), Democrats, abortions, birth control, social programs, Islam, black-on-black crimes, fatherless families etc.

13 posted on 05/29/2012 1:03:45 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Separation of church and state" only applies to non-Eric Holder's people.
14 posted on 05/29/2012 1:05:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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Why are taxpayers funding a “how to make sure Obama gets elected”, seminar? Also, why is the DOJ and IRS teaching such a course? Too bad Congress is so feckless or they might actually be following my line of questioning.
15 posted on 05/29/2012 1:08:34 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A whole bunch of white churches need to invite Holder to come and give them this same info. And then sue when he does not show (14th. Amendment)


16 posted on 05/29/2012 1:09:11 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Free ThinkerNY

” Attorney General Eric Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU will brief several hundred pastors in the African American community on how to participate in the presidential election — which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help President Obama’s campaign.”

R A C I S M run amok!!


17 posted on 05/29/2012 1:13:34 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yassuh, Massuh Holder. We hear and will obey.


18 posted on 05/29/2012 1:17:18 PM PDT by Huskrrrr ( the will)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

vomitous


19 posted on 05/29/2012 1:17:35 PM PDT by Gasshog (Tragically,Obama ate the blue dog...)
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To: Freestate316; Free ThinkerNY; RushIsMyTeddyBear; Buckeye McFrog; Brown Deer; melancholy
Imagine if John Ashcroft did the same with conservative white pastors.

From the excerpt:

""In fact, we're going to have the IRS administrator there, we're going to have the Attorney General Eric Holder there, we're going to have the lawyers' organization from around the country, the ACLU -- all giving ministers guidance about what they can and cannot do," he noted."
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Is there any audio/video of this Cleaver interview with MSNBC?

Atty General Holder and the IRS administrator---"all giving ministers guidance about what they can and cannot do," ?!!!

If the Atty General of the United States and the IRS administer are privately-dispensing special information to a special few ministers, ALL ministers need to be included in the conference.

In fact, the meeting should be publicly accessible to ALL citizens of the USA.

20 posted on 05/29/2012 1:17:59 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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