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Tea Party Rejects IRS Apology, Republicans Vow Investigation
ABC News ^ | 05/10/2013 | ABBY PHILLIP

Posted on 05/10/2013 2:47:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Conservative groups have rejected an Internal Revenue Service apology for unjustifiably scrutinizing tax-exempt conservative groups during the 2012 election cycle. The IRS apology has seemingly validated conservatives' fears of politically motivated regulation.

House Republican leaders, meanwhile, have vowed to investigate.

Lois Lerner, the director the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt organizations, said that organizations had been given additional scrutiny if their applications included the words "Tea Party" or "patriot." The practice originated with "low-level" employees in Cincinnati, according to an Associated Press report.

In a press conference on Friday, Lerner called the actions of these employees "absolutely inappropriate."

"They didn't do it because of any political bias," Lerner said, adding that singling out groups with specific names was an ill-thought-out organizational "shortcut."

"It was an error in judgment and it wasn't appropriate but that's what they did," she said.

"We've now corrected these issues, and we don't expect that any of these will be repeated going forward."

Despite the apology, conservative groups are now seizing on the news, which they say proves their long-standing complaints of mistreatment by the IRS.

"President Obama must also apologize for his administration ignoring repeated complaints by these broad grassroots organizations of harassment by the IRS in 2012, and make concrete and transparent steps today to ensure this never happens again," said Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots.

Tea Party Express founder Sal Russo told ABC News that his group, formed as a PAC, never heard from the IRS but did hear from smaller Tea-Party groups that complained of government scrutiny.

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To: SeekAndFind
apology not accepted, hehe.
121 posted on 05/11/2013 8:44:24 AM PDT by Drawn7979
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To: stormhill

Free Republic is a for-profit corporation solely funded by taxable donations from its members. You may not deduct contributions to Free Republic, so the IRS would not be auditing you for that.

I have heard that people who have been audited are rich fodder for the feds to audit again. That could be the cause of your close scrutiny by them.

If they audit you and find you’re short on your taxes, you will get audited again until they owe you or you’re even.


122 posted on 05/11/2013 10:12:42 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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FR is funded solely by the freedom loving folks
who love and use it. TEA Party On!

WE are Free Republic!!!
Please Contribute Today!

123 posted on 05/11/2013 10:23:32 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: SeekAndFind
How likely is it that the Obama campaign was able to get a copy of Mitt Romney's tax returns? Knowing what we know now, I think it is HIGHLY LIKELY.


124 posted on 05/11/2013 10:42:01 AM PDT by yellowhammer
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To: glock rocks

This Highlander is with you!


125 posted on 05/11/2013 10:51:18 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: Jim Robinson; glock rocks

Same here, sir!

With you all the way!


126 posted on 05/11/2013 10:55:33 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: upchuck

And 1000, 10,000 local groups are d@mned hard to stop ;)


127 posted on 05/11/2013 10:57:36 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: Jim Robinson; glock rocks; onyx

BUMP!


128 posted on 05/11/2013 11:11:13 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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Here's your sign, IRS.


FR is funded solely by the freedom loving folks
who love and use it. TEA Party On!

WE are Free Republic!!!
Please Contribute Today!

129 posted on 05/11/2013 11:13:10 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: RedMDer

BUMP!


130 posted on 05/11/2013 11:16:05 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: BenLurkin
Wouldn’t it be funny if 300 million Americans relegated employees of a certain agency to the same social status of pedophiles, and intimidated them and bullied them until that agency had no more employees, and people were too scared to go to work for that agency? That would basically render that agency redundant. That is how the people could effectively dismantle an agency.
131 posted on 05/11/2013 11:28:23 AM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: BenLurkin

At a minimum. If the Republican house leadership doesn’t make this happen, then what are they there for? Sitting around in committee meetings bemoaning these type of activities with only real purpose of gaining future campaign donor contributions is also failure in of itself. The real goal should be is to determine if there was systematic, choreographed Hydra-headed operation focused on a sector of Americans.

I find it hard to believe that this is the actions of one isolated bureaucrat. These actions should have criminal consequences otherwise long-term federal bureaucrats may continue to feel a sense of empowerment and their misplaced duty to operationalize their position of unique standing in accordance with the views of the president they admire at the time.

People who think that bureaucrats are passionless, impartial implementers are utterly mistaken. The full extent of criminal law must be demanded to send the signal.


132 posted on 05/11/2013 12:11:27 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: SeekAndFind
The fact that this happened during the election should not be lost.

It's clear that the purpose for delaying the approval of the tax status for conservative groups was to prevent them from effectively participating for Romney.

Second to that was the desire to cause these groups to expend extra funds fighting the delays, as well as diverting their focus from supporting Romney to fighting the IRS.

-PJ

133 posted on 05/11/2013 12:16:26 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: dila813

Not just fired, criminally prosecuted for violation of constitutional rights, freedom from coercion and to assemble.

If in fact IRS staff was told to do this in a subterfuge manner by this Adminisration, then we are well on our way back to King George.

This revelation could be more explosive than Benghazi. Benghazi is more about incompetence resulting in death and no attempt to order military into action because of concern on electoral politics.

Using the IRS to destroy or thwart the political efforts of Americans desiring to be active in how our government is run is basically ripping the Declaration of Independence and Constitution in half and using them for toilet paper.

The IRS staff should not have the authority or the ability to be able to do this. These auditing actions should be similar to a police officer getting a warrant from a judge. Where is the oversight to prevent this type of arbitrary behavior?

Who told this staff to use Tea Party labeling as a search mechanism? Was it verbalized at a cocktail party in DC to make this happen because of the fear of the in roads the Tea Party was having throughout the US?


134 posted on 05/11/2013 12:28:53 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

The jokes on us, conservatives are the only ones who follow the laws.

laws for libs are just a tool of entertainment for them to watch us run around chasing our tail.


135 posted on 05/11/2013 12:39:19 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813

Go figure the IRS is auditing me from 2008. They are desperate!


136 posted on 05/11/2013 12:50:26 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Taxman

Without repealing Obamacare too the IRS is around to stay.

Congress needs to get their act together and their priorities straight!


137 posted on 05/11/2013 12:55:46 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: SeekAndFind

“The IRS apology has seemingly validated conservatives’ fears of politically motivated regulation.”

Translation: We’ll spin this so that conservatives look like paranoid kooks.


138 posted on 05/11/2013 3:29:06 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: BenLurkin

Ah....crossing the Rubicon.

I anticipate it.


139 posted on 05/11/2013 3:32:48 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: K-oneTexas

I agree that Obamacare must be repealed.


140 posted on 05/11/2013 3:51:28 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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