Posted on 07/03/2013 6:13:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Tea party activists in Ohio want to turn an enemy—the Internal Revenue Service—into an ally as they fight continued efforts to expand Medicaid.
In a confidential email sent to fellow Ohio tea party leaders and obtained by The Associated Press, Tom Zawistowski laid out a strategy for invoking a little-known IRS provision that allows citizens to challenge executive salaries and the nonprofit statuses of charitable hospitals.
In a phone interview Tuesday, Zawistowski called it “hilarious” that tea party groups that came under extra scrutiny by the IRS are now using an IRS law to target others.
Zawistowski identifies the hospitals as big backers of expanded Medicaid. His email said tea party groups will “make Medicaid personal” by publicizing large salaries of those seeking federal money to help the poor. …
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Nice technique. Use the existing rules to defeat your opponent. The dems do it against the GOP all the time. Time to do it against them. We need to rid this country of these communist usurpers.
This is suspicious. One has to wonder if the email was "obtained" by AP, perhaps by the Obama administration?
Can they challenge obama/bidens enormous hotel bills when they travel?
Infiltrators!
I would bet the author leaked it.
Reminds me of a genius move that Rove played years ago.
He created an outrageous ad accusing a lib of some dastardly act. He then bought a bunch of airtime in tiny markets in the such and the ad was broadcast. Howls of anger arose from the left, and the next thing you know all thee networks are running the ad nonstop. Cable news ran it 24/7.
It cost Rove nothing and destroyed the targeted lib. Genius.
once again obama stenographers in the left wing media trying to belittle the Tea Party....notice how they don’t capitalize Tea Party??
what did the AP do when it came to the smelly hippies of the occupy movement??
Ohio Ping
Tea party activists in Ohio want to turn an enemy—the Internal Revenue Service—into an ally as they fight continued efforts to expand Medicaid.
In a confidential email sent to fellow Ohio tea party leaders and obtained by The Associated Press, Tom Zawistowski laid out a strategy for invoking a little-known IRS provision that allows citizens to challenge executive salaries and the nonprofit statuses of charitable hospitals.
> It cost Rove nothing and destroyed the targeted lib. Genius.
Rove is a strategic genius, I’ll give him that.
Too bad he’s working against the TEA Parties.
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