U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) told the tale of one of his constituents who applied for tax-exempt status for her Tea Party group in July 2010. Twenty months later she got her first response from the IRS, a letter with dozens of questions. She answered them all, but shes still waiting for approval. However, during the intervening three years she was visited by the FBIs domestic terrorism unit, had four additional FBI inquiries, had both her personal and business taxes audited and been the subject of an OSHA inspection.
I’m waiting for: *I didn’t know, I didn’t know anything....and I don’t care....it was so long ago.*
I believe that is the same woman that Huck had on his show yesterday - she was from Texas and her org was called True the Vote (or something close to that). She said they were non-partisan and just wanted to train people.
IIRC she had something like 17 interactions with the IRS, BATF, FBI, etc. and it cost her at least a few $100k.
Her name is Catherine Englebrecht(sp) and she was very well spoken. I think Huck reruns this afternoon - you might want to check it out.
I was flipping channels after she was on and when I flipped back to Huck I caught the very end of a discussion between a black man (Dim) and black woman (spoke like a conservative). Didn’t catch their names or professions but the woman was great (the little I saw of her).