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Ten orgs made 80% of all 501 c(4) election expenditures in 2012. Why were tiny ones targeted?
ConservativeIntel.com ^ | 5/17/13 | David Freddoso

Posted on 05/18/2013 6:46:21 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier

[T]he dominance of just a few groups becomes obvious immediately...American Crossroads alone spent $71 million, or more than a quarter of the total. The top ten groups...Meanwhile, the IRS targeted groups with median expenditures (political and otherwise) of just $13,000...

(Excerpt) Read more at conservativeintel.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: irs
The liberals' excuse that Citizens United was behind this targeting is just ridiculous on its face.
1 posted on 05/18/2013 6:46:21 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier
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To: The Old Hoosier

Because they are those “rabble” out there in flyover country.


2 posted on 05/18/2013 6:54:16 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: The Old Hoosier
Because it's too harrrrd to audit the big ones...

(Besides, they might sic their legal staff on ya.)

3 posted on 05/18/2013 6:56:04 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: headstamp 2

My thoughts similarly. Those Big Ten certainly had large $ backing I guess, but I’d hazard to guess all those other little flyover-like organizations had a buttload more votes involved.


4 posted on 05/18/2013 6:57:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: The Old Hoosier
The same reason the ACLU targets small town America during Christmas.

5 posted on 05/18/2013 6:58:22 AM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism needs a re-awakening plan for the American public)
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To: The Old Hoosier

6 posted on 05/18/2013 7:18:00 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: headstamp 2

headstamp 2~:” Because they are those “rabble” out there in flyover country.”

Because they are small and don’t have a legal defense fund
But mostly besides being “rabble” who are not appreciated by (R’s) and the (D’s)of the major parties
They were frequently located in ‘swing states’, which surpressed their effectiveness on the number of votes
and allowed the election to be stolen by bureaucratic stagnation.


7 posted on 05/18/2013 7:22:08 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: The Old Hoosier

Like everything else, we don’t have a two party system, we have a two tier system.


8 posted on 05/18/2013 7:34:11 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: The Old Hoosier; All

Remember that Rove Republicans are anti-Tea Party/anti-Conservative....do you really think they care what happens to Conservative groups?

Why wasn’t Rove Republicans and other left GOP groups targeted?

Also...why has no one called for the elimination of the IRS?....People need to wake up and learn the difference between a Republican and a Conservative


9 posted on 05/18/2013 7:34:56 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Also , since the major parties are trying to stiffle discent
the administration figured that there would be no
loud hue and cry about this adminstrative tactic.

“I was only following orders” lament is used too often
especially since this adminsitration has conducted a known assault against ‘whistle-blowers’.
The fact that this ‘scandal’ was promted by a ‘planted question’
gives further credance to the lack of concern by this adminsitration to being ‘found out’
as well as a neeed to create another scandal to deflect intensity of criticism over Benghazi !

Heads will be fired over the calculated administrative delay and they will find jobs elsewhere in the government,
but officials should be IMPEACHED over the murders in Benghazi.
The IRS scandal is only a stratigic feint to distract .


10 posted on 05/18/2013 7:36:16 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: The Old Hoosier

Isn’t abuse by the IRS of conservative groups instead of changing the law that was found Constitutional in itself Unconstitutional?
They should change the law they don’t like, not warp procedures to try to enforce their interpretation.


11 posted on 05/18/2013 8:08:07 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: The Old Hoosier
Like a fish, the rot always starts at the head.


12 posted on 05/18/2013 8:08:30 AM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: publius911

I think the last part is priceless.
“Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s Brain” (rear)

So, further proof that 0bummer’s brain is in his rear.


13 posted on 05/18/2013 9:45:47 AM PDT by Islander2
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