Posted on 09/11/2007 7:57:14 AM PDT by rface
After an extensive audit, the Internal Revenue Service has exonerated Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson of accusations from liberal watchdog groups that he violated his organization's non-profit status by endorsing GOP candidates -- including President Bush -- during the 2004 election.
"No dings. No criticisms. Not a single allegation was found to have substance," Dobson said regarding charges made against him in 2005 by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and Citizens Project, a Colorado group that states its purpose is "creating a community valuing diversity, equality and religious freedom."
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CREW's original complaint, which was 99 pages long, accused Dobson of capitalizing on his identification with his organization and using its resources "for his political activities, giving the understandable perception that he was acting as chairman and founder of Focus on the Family."
The document called on the IRS to conduct a "full-scale investigation" and to revoke the tax-exempt status of Dobson's organization, levy fines, and pursue "civil and criminal penalties."
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Dobson read from the letter he received last week from the IRS:
"Our examination revealed that Dr. Dobson's reported remarks did not occur in publications of Focus on the Family, did not occur at functions of Focus on the Family and did not involve Dr. Dobson's suggestion that he was speaking as a representative of Focus on the Family."
"As such, we are closing our examination without any change to our recognition of Focus on the Family"
CREW Deputy Director Naomi Seligman Steiner said that her group has asked for a copy of the IRS letter from Focus on the Family and would not respond until it has been able to review it.
"I doubt if the mainstream media -- what Rush Limbaugh calls the 'drive-by media' who shoots at you symbolically and then goes on down the road and leaves chaos behind -- I doubt if they'll come back and say, 'By the way, Focus on the Family is squeaky clean,'" he added. "But we are!"
Wonder how CREW feels about Clinton, Sharpton, Gore and Jackson preaching at Black Churches?
Ouch, I hope that leaves a mark. Cry babies are they pushing to audit Shillary?
How ethical is it to make baseless, logically torturous claims against someone you don't like, in order to rat them out?
So will Crew now be required to pay all costs (his and the IRS) of this investigation?
The Rats and Rinos did the same thing to Newt, with the same results.
I'm convinced that both cases were fishing expeditions.
The accusers assume the defendants have just GOT to have SOMETHING stuck on their shoes and who better to find it but the I R S.
And after the IRS spends 4 or 5 YEARS (in Newt's case) and finds NOTHING, and then acutally RECOMMENDS the supposedly offensive material as valuable and beneficial with not a TRACE of impropriety....
. ....deafening . silence . from the MSM,Rats and Rinos who made the false charges
I hope there is a way to goad the Drive-bys to report this and at the same time, expose the cost to the taxpayer that this type of horse-____ incurs.
So will Crew now be required to pay all costs (his and the IRS) of this investigation?
I sincerely hope so and I hope it is big bucks!
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