[Pollster1]

"Can you see in your mind's eye a way that this might not have been political, that this was a misguided stupid way to sort, but that they didn't intend it to be some kind of political attempt to harass the Tea Party?"

Targeting groups with "Tea Party" or "Patriot" in their name might not have been intended to harass the Tea Party. That one is creative!

[muawiyah]

So, all at once a whole big bunch of TEAParty outfits want 501(c)4 ~ the applications are in the mail and are coming into the office in a steady stream.

What to do; what to do. All these guys are new at this classification ~ how many different people do you want to talk to or write letters to.

Frankly, I"d sort them but I"d set that process up years before so that we never got caught flatfooted with a 'surge' in the number of cases from a single sector ~

Alphabetical tends to work BTW ~ that's similar to simply filing your current correspondence in one of those flexible binders that will let you stick in 1 letter, or a booklet.

You ramp up from there.

The advantage to this is simple ~ you can never be accused of being 'inflexible' or 'biased' ~ even if you are doing an exceedingly incompetent job at moving cases.