Director of IRS Tax-Exempt Determinations Office is Obama Donor

National Review ^ | May 15, 2013 | By Eliana Johnson

[Jim Robinson]

The director of the Office of Rulings and Agreements, which oversees the determinatons of tax-exempt organizations, is a donor to Barack Obama. Holly Paz donated $2,000 to Obama’s 2008 campaign, according to Open Secrets, which maintains a database of individual political donations.

An inspector general’s report released yesterday concluded that the IRS improperly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups for undue scrutiny, and Paz heads the office in which the wrongdoing is said to have occurred. National Review Online reported earlier today that agency officials are currently copying the hard drives of every employee on Paz’s watch. That data will be made available to investigators working on a second IG investigation focusing on the potential criminal activity individual agency employees.

The House Oversight Committe is requesting that Paz and four other employees be made available for transcribed interviews starting next week.

Data from the Center for Responsive Politics indicate that Paz’s donations are consistent with broader trends at the IRS, where agency employees donated overwhelming to President Obama in both the 2012 and 2008 presiential Elections.

[twister881]

The outrage isn't the donation itself — it's that the Govt. schlub makes so much money suckling at the taxpayer teat that she could even make such a contribution. Remember, you paid for it.

[PghBaldy]

Congress needs to get on the ball and look under every rock at every Department in the Regime. IRS is just part of it. I imagine there was discrimination at things like Labor too.

[dragnet2]

Based on what has occurred and what is being investigated regarding this very corrupt government agency, I’d say Ms. Paz should resign immediately and forfeit her bloated government pension..

Then put her under oath.

[dragnet2]

Absolutely! How many out here could afford to donate $2000.00 freaking dollars to some political campaign?

Just how much are they paying this political insider?

Ms. Paz should be investigated back to when she was in 5th grade.... Lets see what's under her fingernails. This should be quite revealing.

[M Kehoe]

Best that Holly Paz stays away from Ft. Marcy park.

5.56mm

[morphing libertarian]

I think they want to get all the scandals out of the way before next year. OB, the hero of Benghazi, peace be upon him, thinks he won’t get dumped. Push come to shove his ace card is to let holder go and put Benghazi on others, so hillary can run.

I think hillary is toast and perhaps OB will retire early.

One can hope.

[dragnet2]

BTW, ya think Ms. Paz would get this high paying government position, without giving *thousands* to the Obama campaign and other government insiders?

[MHGinTN]

BTW, ya think maybe she was happy to have her name used as a donor because she could pretend she gave and thus have a tax deduction? Or was she aware that her name was used to funnel Soros etal funds to help secure barry’s next appointment?

[TArcher]

I always wondered what it must’ve been like as the true believers and Useful Idiots in the pre-Soviet bureaucracy established their fiefdoms within the Empire to be.

Fire in the minds of Morons.

[stanne]

I see BO retiring in situ, and it may already have happened. He’d be a lib hero forever and ever if he becomes a victim.

The other one, though, that Benghazi sidekick of his, I prefer to not forget, lest I become disappointed, how she uses victimhood as a ladder to success. Covering up is a nickname, a family name.

[piasa]

In Illinois to keep a government job a Democrat has to donate a set amount or more to your chosen Demmocrat recipient - a "specialist" or bundler makes sure all the people in a given department do so.

[piasa]

She's a small fish, someone bundled that office and it likely wasn't her. Often the bundler gets to host or cohost a visit by the candidate who benefits, so said candidate knows to whom to send the favors.

It'd be interesting to see a list of the local fundraisers held after her donation.

[morphing libertarian]

Yes, we’re in danger of 8 more years of this crap.

[GeronL]

This looks like its going to be huge. They cannot pin this on 2 flunkie in one office anymore. They cannot pretend this wasn’t admin policy.

[Razz Barry]

Jail time! We need to do away with the IRS. It's always going to be used to harass, intimidate and punish the opponents of those in charge. We need a simpler tax system. One that the American people can understand.

[dragnet2]

A simple flat tax should have been implemented 50 years ago...

What we have now is a massive mobster racket, intentionally made complex and run by corrupt government insiders.

[uncommonsense]

"0bamaCare’s reliance on the IRS to monitor and implement over 30 programs just went down the loo."

With weeping Boehner and mumbling McConnell leading the opposition? May I please have a drink of your optimism?

If a truly independent prosecutor is implemented - maybe at best, there will be a slowdown in power.

[onyx]

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[uncommonsense]

"A very young Caucasian redhead stepchild apparently."

Fixed it...

[NoLibZone]

The Obama admin has used the full weight and might of the federal government to suppress voter turnouts and participation for two elections.

We are in a Constitutional crises.