(IBD) Lois Lerner Targeted Dick Durbin Senate Opponent

Investor's Business Daily ^ | June 3, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

Scandal: Before his 2010 letter urging the IRS to target conservatives, the Senate majority whip's 1996 campaign benefited from the targeting of his opponent by a Federal Election Commission official with a familiar name.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics with the 1996 targeting of Illinois conservative Al Salvi by a familiar name, Lois Lerner, then head of the Enforcement Division of the Federal Elections Commission.

That year, Democrat U.S. Rep. Dick Durbin and Republican State Rep. Al Salvi were locked in a battle for the U.S. Senate seat Durbin would eventually win.

As the journal Illinois Review details, Salvi was confronted with an "October surprise," not one, but two, FEC complaints filed against him — one by Illinois Democrats about the way he reported a loan he made to himself, and another by the Democratic Senatorial Committee about a reported business donation.

The late inning complaints stalled Salvo's campaign against Durbin. "We couldn't get our message out because day after day, the media carried story after story about the FEC complaint," Salvi told Illinois Review.

This tactic of keeping political opponents busy was repeated by IRS Exempt Organizations Division chief Lerner on her targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups in the 2012 presidential campaign.

Salvi recognized Lerner when she invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee as the woman who made him an offer: "Promise me you will never run for office again, and we'll drop this case."

[jimfree]

She seems to be a real prick.

[SoldierDad]

Anyone surprised by this?

[molson209]

1996 campaign , is that where she wanted 200k and him to promise to never run again or is there another

[cripplecreek]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Speaking of Al Salvi as I mentioned in my earlier post... The Combine has had help from DC in sabotaging IL Reformists going back 2 decades now.

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[Democrat_media]

These democrat cretins in the Obama administration make the book 1984 look like a kids fairy tale

[Shady]

She needs to be looking down at her feet with shackles and an orange jumpsuit on.

[Windcatcher]

You’re being far too kind. The truly evil among us deserve to lose whatever is most important to them in life—whatever it might be.

What is hers? I have no clue, but everyone has something.

[Windcatcher]

If these totalitarian SOB’s want 1984 so badly, perhaps they should be sent to room 101.

[Democrat_media]

Lois Lerner is a typical democrat: a criminal communist , socialist thug hell bent on destroying all our freedoms and America. The Democrat party is a a criminal organization and the enemy of Americans. The democrat party also completely controls the media. that is their most powerful weapon to enslave us

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[okie01]

If the people who authorized and directed the IRS harrassment -- people like Lois Lerner and her ilk -- don't go to jail over this blatent criminality, we will have lowered the bar forever on the behavior of public "servants".

Prosecutions and prison time are absolutely necessary in the face of such corruption.

[sport]

I was disappointed when President Bush refused to prosecute the Clinton crime cartel. In my opinion, you can forget about anyone being prosecuted for this scandle unless they happen to be a Republican.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Is that Pelosi’s twin sister???

[GOPJ]

People are going to jail over this one...

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[lone star annie]

I want this woman out of government forever! She is a partisan hack and an evil, vile woman who is not fit to serve!