Posted on 04/14/2014 10:50:37 AM PDT by Starman417
I finally understand why Elijah Cummings wanted so badly to persecute Catherine Engelbrecht. And as far as democrats go, it's lies all around.
True the Vote is a organization made up of volunteers who are interested in preventing voter fraud.
Our initiatives include: •Mobilizing and training volunteers who are willing to work as election monitors •Aggressively pursuing fraud reports to ensure prosecution when appropriate •Providing a support system for our volunteers that includes live and online training, quick reference guides, a call bank to phone in problem reports, information on videotaping at polling places, and security as necessary •Creating documentaries and instructional videos for use in recruiting and training •Raising awareness of the problem through strategic outreach efforts including advertising, social networking, media relations, and relational marketing •Voter registration programs and efforts to validate existing registration lists, including the use of pattern recognition software to detect problem areas
Engelbrecht's private company is Engelbrecht manufacturing, which makes precision machined parts. It has no political operation.
Which makes all this very odd.
Engelbrecht had the wrath of God visited upon her by the Obama regime for the crime of creating a tax exempt organization:
In July 2010 she sent applications to the IRS for tax-exempt status. What followed was not the harassment, intrusiveness and delay we're now used to hearing of. The U.S. government came down on her with full force.In December 2010 the FBI came to ask about a person who'd attended a King Street Patriots function. In January 2011 the FBI had more questions. The same month the IRS audited her business tax returns. In May 2011 the FBI called again for a general inquiry about King Street Patriots. In June 2011 Engelbrecht's personal tax returns were audited and the FBI called again. In October 2011 a round of questions on True the Vote. In November 2011 another call from the FBI. The next month, more questions from the FBI. In February 2012 a third round of IRS questions on True the Vote. In February 2012 a first round of questions on King Street Patriots. The same month the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms did an unscheduled audit of her business. (It had a license to make firearms but didn't make them.) In July 2012 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration did an unscheduled audit. In November 2012 more IRS questions on True the Vote. In March 2013, more questions. In April 2013 a second ATF audit.
All this because she requested tax-exempt status for a local conservative group and for one that registers voters and tries to get dead people off the rolls. Her attorney, Cleta Mitchell, who provided the timeline above, told me: "These people, they are just regular Americans. They try to get dead people off the voter rolls, you would think that they are serial killers."
This week Ms. Engelbrecht, who still hasn't received her exemptions, sued the IRS.
And it has been a costly experience:
“We had never been audited. We had never been investigated, but all that changed upon submitting applications for the non-profit statuses of True the Vote and King Street,” she told the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee.“Since that filing in 2010, my private businesses, my nonprofit organizations, my family and I have been subjected to more than 15 instances of audit or inquiry by federal agencies,” she added.
Engelbrecht’s personal and business tax returns were audited in 2011 – “each audit going back for a number of years.” Her business was inspected by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 2012 when neither she nor her husband was present. She said she was later fined over $20,000 even though “the agency wrote that it found nothing serious or significant.”
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms audited her business in 2012 and 2013, and the FBI contacted her non-profit group six times since 2010 in an attempt to “cull through membership manifests in conjunction with domestic terrorism cases,” she claimed.
“They eventually dropped all matters and have now redacted nearly all my files,” Engelbrecht said.
Cummings lied about his involvement in this persecution:
Ms. Mitchell: We want to get to the bottom of how these coincidences happened, and we’re going to try to figure out whether any – if there was any staff of this committee that might have been involved in putting True the Vote on the radar screen of some of these Federal agencies. We don’t know that, but we – we’re going to do everything we can do to try to get to the bottom of how did this all happen.Mr. Cummings. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. Meadows. Yes.
Mr. Cummings. I want to thank the gentleman for his courtesy. What she just said is absolutely incorrect and not true.
But it is true. Not only did the Oversight Minority Committee group put True the Vote on the radar, they all but demanded that the IRS eviscerate it.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Cummings is a POS.
Here's TrueTheVote's website.. http://www.truethevote.org/
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Lovely lady who has put up with the tyranny and harassment the Obama admin visits upon conservatives.
She holds her head high and handles it all with grace, but she will not stand down. Good for her!
Wouldn’t it be grand to see Cummings go from IRS hearing committee participant, to IRS hearing subject of inquiry? He should be charged with crimes for receiving information from Lois Lerner while chairman of IRS scandal hearings.
German Pastor Martin Niemöller who was sent to a concentration camp in 1937
Yes he is. He even asked how the people who were to watch out for voter fraud were deployed? The question was obviously to know where they were, their tactics, how to spot them - so Cummings pals committing voter fraud could evade them.
That, and belligerence. Something that Cummings, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters and Cynthia McKinney use to the hilt.
Why not just call the BATF guy that was sent there and ask them under oath who sent them? With the FBI being in on it, they are doubtful to do any kind of investigation. With the BATF, EPA, and OSHA all paying a visit, probably one of them will give up their boss that OK'd the trip to Houston to harass this lady. Surely there is a paper trail for the airlines with someone signing off on the plane tickets. I bet in 30 minutes I could get 30 names to call before the committee under oath. They would all know that they are in jeopardy of perjury with their gubmint pension on the line.
The "little" people will give these guys up so quick your head would spin. At some point Learner would have to give up her boss or go down herself and no immunity would be needed.
I blame the Repubs for being stuck on stupid. If Lois thinks she's safe, then go around her. What would a detective do?
I haven’t read anything that has made me more angry than this article.
I’m an 81 year old who always had a modicum of pride and trust in the government.
No more.
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Yet the 'Rats still lie blatantly by claiming that election fraud is no problem. Furthermore, their MSM lackeys repeat that mantra and brainwash their audiences into thinking that there is hardly any problem with the integrity of the American election system, then build on that lie by contending that reasonable attempts to clean up the election process (such as the popular photo voter ID requirement) are "racist."
Engelbrecht should sue Cummings. Its clear from the emails he colluded with the IRS to suppress her Constitutional rights.
Darn shame Boehner isn’t seeking to sanction Cummings. The Dems had no problem denouncing Rush Limbaugh and he did nothing wrong.
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“Cummings is a POS.”
Yes he certainly is! And the MSM know it too!
Cummings is probably wired straight to Holder and the wannabe Iranian in the White House.
I'd be almost certain that all three (and more) were in contact with each other during the harassment and persecution of Ms. Engelbrecht and "True the Vote."
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