Posted on 09/13/2013 6:12:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Attorney General Eric Holder and IRS officials advised black ministers on how to engage in political activity during the 2012 election without violating their tax-exempt status.
Holder, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, and Peter Lorenzetti, a senior official in the scandal-plagued agencys exempt organizations division, participated in a May 2012 training session for black ministers from the Conference of National Black Churches at the U.S. Capitol hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Holder spoke at the event.
Were going to, first of all, equip them with the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, said then-CBC chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat from Missouri. In fact, were going to have the IRS administrator there. Were going to have Attorney General Eric Holder there
the ACLU.(continued)
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The stigma (regrettably) is definitely a part of it.
The other part is affirmative action. As always, “Follow the Money”.
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