At the direction of Lois Lerner, the Federal Election Commission sued the Christian Coalition in the 1990s. She harassed the Christian Coalition for three election cycles. She lost her case. Lerner even asked one conservative during the case if Pat Robertson prayed over him. (Sound familiar?)
These actions landed her at the IRS where she used the same tactics against conservatives and Christians only on a much larger scale. 500 conservative and Christian groups were illegally targeted by the Obama IRS during her tenure. For twenty-seven months the Obama IRS refused to approve any Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status. At the same time the Obama IRS approved dozens of progressive applications. (Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
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Lerner began her Congressional testimony by reading a self-serving statement, then declared that shed answer no questions. Cong Trey Gowdy objected, insisting that once you start yapping in your own interest, youre not allowed to clam up again. Gowdy knows more than anyone---we are dealing w/ practiced con artists---the logic of established law does not work w/ these cons. Trey needs to grill Lerner about this:
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION APPROVES 50 MILLION DOLLARS IN AID TO KENYA. O'S HALF BRO READY TO CASH IN---RUNS THE TAX-EXEMPT "DO-GOOD" OBAMA FOUNDATION
NAMED FOR DEAR OLD DAD The tax-exempt charity named in honor of their Dad, is run by President Barack Obamas half-brother Malik.
The tax-exempt Obama foundation, fast-tracked by Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status, is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organizations IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.
As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......which it stupidly never applied for.
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The tax-exempt Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by Abongo Roy Malik Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama. The foundations mission statement is to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond. Its guiding principle is the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.
(same old, same old sap-happy do-goodniks)
Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesnt seem to have done much. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building an imams house as well as some proposed latrines, but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance, as the site says.
Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporters passport and govt ID, along with a description of the articles motivation and slant.
Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organizations voicemail and were not returned.
Obama's half-brother Malik holds up photo of Obama in Muslim
dress taken on a trip to Kenya when Ohaha was about 23-24 yo.
Great post!
Good
Compilation of who she is and what she’s done.
IMO it needs its own thread so it can more easily be distributed by those who have contact information !
Thanks Liz. Review is always Great!
From the article:
The FEC general counsels office, in its recommendation on the case, apparently didnt tell the agencys commissioners about how it had obtained the information about the groups tax-exempt status. Recommending that the commissioners prosecute the American Future Fund, the general counsels office wrote, According to its response, AFF submitted an application for tax-exempt status to the Internal Revenue Service . . . on March 18, 2008.
The footnote to that sentence reads, The IRS has not yet issued a determination letter regarding AFFs application for exempt status. Based on the information from the response and the IRS website, it is likely that the application is still under review. In fact, an FEC lawyer knew that the organization had yet to obtain tax-exempt status because Lerner provided the confidential information.
The general counsels report was issued in September 2008, but it was over five months before the six FEC commissioners voted, in late-February 2009, on whether to prosecute the American Future Fund for violations of campaign-finance laws. (The typical lag time between the submission of a general counsels recommendation and a commission vote is about a month, according to a source familiar with the workings of the commission.)
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The 16-pg email was signed by 4 people on Sept 30, 2008:
Thomasenia Duncan, General Counsel
Ann Marie Terzaken, Assoc General Counsel for Enforcement
Julie McConnell, Asst General Counsel
William A Powers, Attorney
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August 18, 2008
Secrets of the American Future Fund
http://iowaindependent.com/4203/secrets-of-the-american-future-fund
In March, an ad run by AFF in the race between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Sen. Norm Coleman for Minnesotas U.S. Senate seat caused the states Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to file a formal complaint with the FEC alleging that the group violated federal election law and that its ads constitute blatant electoral advocacy.
The American Future Fund is a shadowy nonprofit organization, the complaint said. It purports to be exempt from tax under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. But its notion of promoting the social welfare is to send valentines to electorally troubled Republican Senate candidates. The Commission should take immediate steps to enforce the law and expose this groups secret financing to light of day.
Under federal election law, the organization is prohibited from engaging solely in express advocacy, which would include asking voters to vote for or against a certain candidate. But so long as the ad hasnt been coordinated with a campaign and doesnt outright say vote for or vote against, it is not considered express advocacy, according to Paul S. Ryan, FEC program director for the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington, D.C.-based organization.
An organization that is careful about how it writes the script of its ad can fly under the radar or stay outside of the net of campaign finance activity, he said.
The ad in question didnt ask voters to vote for Coleman, but rather asked voters to call Norm Coleman and thank him for his agenda for Minnesota.
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Sept 10, 2009
Des Moines-based American Future Fund Thursday launched a multi-state television ad campaign, coinciding with the presidents national health care address, hoping to convince conservative Democrats to oppose health care reform legislation.
This ad campaign will not be the first time the group has had a presence in Minnesota. One of the races it focused on during the 2008 campaign was the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging AFF violated federal election law by failing to register and report as a political committee. The FEC ruled in AFFs favor.
http://iowaindependent.com/19656/american-future-fund-goes-after-blue-dogs
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July 31, 2013
AFF Responds To Evidence Of Targeting By The IRS And FEC
http://americanfuturefund.com/aff-responds-to-evidence-of-targeting-by-the-irs-and-fec
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Decoding the Dispute Between the FEC and Its Lawyers Over Sharing Information with DOJ
By Brian Svoboda on July 8th, 2013
http://www.lawandpoliticsupdate.com/2013/07/decoding-the-dispute-between-the-fec-and-its-lawyers-over-sharing-information-with-doj-2/
If we don’t fight back soon, there will be nothing left to fight for. We could learn something from the Egyptians.