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To: taildragger
I wonder if Howie Carr will be all over this today...
2 posted on 11/04/2014 1:40:15 AM PST by taildragger (Not my Circus, Not my Monkey ( Boy does that apply to DC...))
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To: taildragger
I wonder if Howie Carr will be all over this today...

Hopefully, he will.

Then, come Wednesday morning, Shaheen can say that Entercom happens. Fifty thousand watts' worth. South of the border.

5 posted on 11/04/2014 1:55:02 AM PST by cynwoody
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REFERENCE---One of the Articles of Impeachment drawn up against Richard Nixon was merely "threatening" to use the Internal Revenue Service to selectively audit political opponents.

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DUMMYCRATS COLLUDE W/ IRS---order IRS to act to save their seats
by Alexander Bolton / The Hill, 2/13/14

Senate Democrats facing tough elections this year want the IRS to play a more aggressive role in regulating outside groups expected to spend millions of dollars on their races. In the wake of the IRS targeting scandal, the Democrats are publicly prodding the agency instead of lobbying them directly.

Dems are also careful to say the IRS should treat conservative and liberal groups equally, but they’re concerned about an impending tidal wave of attack ads funded by GOP-allied organizations. Much of the funding for those groups is secret, in contrast to the donations lawmakers collect, which must be reported publicly.

One of the most powerful groups is Americans for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. It has already spent close to $30 million on ads attacking Democrats this election cycle.

<><> “If they’re claiming the tax relief, the tax benefit to be a nonprofit for social relief or social justice, then that’s what they should be doing,” said Sen. Mark Begich (D), who faces a competitive race in Alaska. “If it’s to give them cover so they can do political activity, that’s abusing the tax code. And either side."

<><><><>Asked if the IRS should play a more active role policing political advocacy by groups that claim to be focused on social welfare, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) responded, “Absolutely. Both on the left and the right,” she said. “As taxpayers, we should not be providing a write-off to groups to do political activity, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.”

Shaheen called the glut of political spending by self-described social welfare groups that qualify under section 501(c) (4) of the tax code “outrageous.” Shaheen is in a good position now but could find herself embroiled in a tight campaign if former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass) challenges her.

<><><><> Sen. Mark Pryor (Ark.), the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent, said the IRS has jurisdiction over 501(c)(4) groups, as well as charities, which fall under section 5/01(c)(3) of the tax code and sometimes engage in quasi-political activity.

“That whole 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4) [issue], those are IRS numbers. It is inherently an internal revenue matter,” he said. “There are two things you don’t want in political money, in the fundraising world and expenditure world. You don’t want secret money, and you don’t want unlimited money, and that’s what we have now.” --SNIP--

21 posted on 11/04/2014 3:49:07 AM PST by Liz
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To: taildragger

Too late. He comes on the air at 3:00. Most of New Hampshire has voted by then.


22 posted on 11/04/2014 4:05:05 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: taildragger

Why don’t we know all six senators that signed this letter? When I heard about this letter that Shumer wrote and some Senators had signed it, it was about 6 months, maybe a year ago and they named my Senator Merkeley-OR as one of them. Nobody in this state has mentioned it and are surprised when I tell them he signed the letter.


69 posted on 11/04/2014 6:32:46 AM PST by thirst4truth (Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.)
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To: taildragger

apparently Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is running for re election this year...

oh that this news had been broken..yesterday.


94 posted on 11/04/2014 8:09:59 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: taildragger

Can the b*tch be recalled?


113 posted on 11/06/2014 12:01:35 PM PST by safetysign
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