Thread: Complaint Says Sen. Chuck Schumer Behind IRS Effort to Attack Tea Party Groups

Complaint Says Sen. Chuck Schumer Behind IRS Effort to Attack Tea Party Groups

Schumer speech laid out plan to destroy tea party groups


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by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | June 8, 2014

The Center for Competitive Politics has filed a complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics claiming New York Senator Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats used the IRS to deny the free speech of political opponents.

Schumer had signed letters directing the IRS to look into allegations of improper campaigning by “social welfare organizations.” The IRS in turned investigated mostly conservative groups.
The complaint also mentions a Schumer speech titled “The Rise of the Tea Party and How Progressives Can Fight Back.” The Center for Competitive Politics says the speech demonstrated how the IRS could be used to attack tea party groups.
“The complaint documents how the senators improperly interfered with IRS adjudications to further their party’s electoral prospects,” Joe Trotter wrote for the Wall Street Journal. “They pressured the IRS to undertake income-tax investigations of specific organizations, to find that specific organizations were in violation of the law, to reach predetermined results pertaining to pending applications by individual organizations for nonprofit status, and to adopt specific regulatory interpretations and policies to further their campaign goals.”
If correct, the complaint reveals the attack on tea party and other conservatives groups did not originate in the White House, as previously claimed, but in the Senate.
“As outrageous as this is, we shouldn’t be shocked,” notes Poor Richard’s News. “It was just a matter of time. History has taught us that if a government is large enough to be capable of doing something like this, it will eventually do it. That’s why the federal government should be so small that it literally couldn’t target or oppress people even if it wanted to. Yet I hear few politicians seriously talking about abolishing the IRS.”
It is now up to the establishment media to look into the allegations. However, considering it long ago jettisoned its role as a watchdog over government and disposed of any pretense of investigative journalism, this prospect is unlikely.
Instead it will not be up to the alternative media to investigate Schumer’s role and that of his fellow Democrats who are running scared from the populist tea party and constitutionalist movements.

http://www.infowars.com/complaint-sa...-party-groups/

Pro-Free Speech Group Files Ethics Complaint Against Sen. Chuck Schumer; Eight Other Democrat Senators

June 6, 2014 By Matthew Burke

Democrat Senators Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, and seven other Democrats, are accused of ethics violations

An ethics complaint has been launched with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, against Senator Chuck Schumer and eight other Democrat senators, for pressuring the Obama IRS to target Tea Party and other conservative groups.

Senators Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Carl Levin, Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeanne Shaheen, Al Franken, Jeff Merkley, and Tom Udall were named by the Center for Competitive Politics, a pro-free speech group, accused of stifling “the free speech rights of nonprofit organizations with which they did not agree.”

One egregious example of evidence substantiating the accusation referenced by the Center is a speech given by Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer (NY), entitled “The Rise of the Tea Party and How Progressives Can Fight Back.” Schumer explained in the speech how the Obama IRS could be used, “to stamp out Tea Party organizations.”

In commenting about the ethics complaint, sent in a letter dated June 2, 2014, to Senate Ethics Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer and Vice Chairman Johnny Isakson, Center president David Keating said:

“Richard Nixon faced impeachment charges for attempting to use the IRS for political purposes. These similar actions surely require the Ethics Committee to sanction one or more of these senators or, at the very least, to adopt rules to ensure it never happens again.

“Over many years, both Republicans and Democrats sought to use the IRS for political purposes and this must stop.”

The complaint against the nine Democrat senators also includes a letter, signed by each of the accused, in which they requested that former Obama IRS commissioner, Douglas Shulman, target the groups.

In February of this year, it was discovered that 100% of 501(c)(4) groups targeted by the Obama IRS for audit were conservative.

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http://www.tpnn.com/2014/06/06/pro-f...crat-senators/

Obama Admin Wasn’t the only One behind the IRS Targeting of Tea Party Groups - Complaint Claims US Senators as Complicit

Tim Brown 3 hours ago
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Much has been made, and rightly so, about the Obama administration's targeting of Conservatives and Tea Party groups. There is no doubt that with the information that has come out that the White House and the Internal Revenue Service were orchestrating the targeting of conservative groups. However, now the Center for Competitive Politics has filed a complaint, which claims that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) along with other Democrat senators sought to deny the free speech of their political opponents by using the IRS.
Bradley A. Smith and David Keating at the Wall Street Journal reports:

On Monday the Center for Competitive Politics filed a complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics against nine U.S. senators: for interfering with IRS tax proceedings; for misusing official resources for campaign purposes; and for improper conduct that reflects poorly upon the Senate. Attempting to use the IRS to advance a partisan, electoral agenda is a fundamental assault on good government. We believe these elected officials have staged such an assault.

The complaint documents how the senators improperly interfered with IRS adjudications to further their party's electoral prospects. They pressured the IRS to undertake income-tax investigations of specific organizations, to find that specific organizations were in violation of the law, to reach predetermined results pertaining to pending applications by individual organizations for nonprofit status, and to adopt specific regulatory interpretations and policies to further their campaign goals.

So, the issue of whether or not the attacks upon Tea Party groups and conservatives by the IRS originated with the White House may not necessarily be true, but actually originated in a Democrat controlled Senate by Democrat senators, namely Chuck Schumer.
The Journal went on to add:

Just days after the final defeat of the Disclose Act in October 2010, Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.)—another senator in our complaint—wrote to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman on his official letterhead to demand that the IRS "quickly examine the tax status of Crossroads GPS," a major conservative nonprofit.

Mr. Durbin accused Crossroads GPS of breaking the law. He later admitted to Chris Wallace on Fox News that he sought the investigation because "they were boastful about how much money they were going to raise and beat Democrats with."

Pressure on the IRS increased after the 2010 midterm Republican landslide. Mr. Schumer stated in one speech, "It's clear we're not going to pass anything legislatively," due to "Republican control" of the House. "But there are many things that can be done by the IRS . . . and we have to redouble our efforts. We have not worked hard enough on this." In a letter to the IRS on March 12, 2012, Mr. Schumer urged the service to investigate various groups identified through reference to news articles.


Michigan Sen. Carl Levin wrote at least seven letters to the IRS, and demanded that it investigate specific nonprofits. The IRS's failure to launch these investigations, he wrote in one, was "unacceptable." Mr. Levin also sought confidential nonprofit tax return information from the IRS, even after being warned, repeatedly, by IRS Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement Steven T. Miller, that such information could not be legally divulged.

Understand that Democrats had attempted to silence their opposition through legislation. When that didn't work, they started interfering in another branch of government to get them to do their bidding. While they can question those agencies, they are definitely violating ethics by attempting to impose themselves in the middle of tax exemption status of American groups, be they conservative or liberal. But according to the complaint, they were not just imposing themselves, they were actually calling for investigations and seeking to prosecute conservative organizations.
And why, you may ask. All because one side was claiming to raise a lot of money, and in politics, money is free speech. If you have money, you can buy more air time, radio time, and newspaper and internet ads.
In May, we reported that documents obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act indicated that the White House was intimately involved in the IRS targeting. We also know that the former head of the IRS, Lois Lerner, knew of the targeting at least as far back as 2011, maybe even earlier, and that emails have suggested that Lerner and a Federal Election Commission attorney conspired to target conservative groups. Emails also reveal that the collusion even went on between Lerner and Eric Holder's Justice Department to jail the political opponents of Barack Obama. My, what a tangled web we weave!
This isn't policy friends. This is criminal activity. It's tyranny.
Will those who claim the mantel of "investigative journalists" do their jobs and seek out the truth in this matter, or will they continue to go quietly along with this administration and members of Congress that are so corrupt that they turn on their fellow citizens and those they represent, all for political gain?

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