Evidence May Point Directly To Barack Obama In IRS Scandal

On Sunday we reported that former IRS Boss Douglas Shulman’s wife, Susan Anderson, is a top ranking executive with a left-wing organization called Public Campaign which could potentially have a lot of interest in who may have been targeted by the IRS. Today the story took another turn toward supporting that hypothesis. It seems that Susan Anderson’s boss, Nick Nyhart, had several visits of his own to the White House. In all he visited seven times with two visits recorded as meetings with President Obama.

So let’s do a quick recap. Shulman has 157 White House visits logged. His wife works for an organization that is very interested in the workings of conservative political campaigns. Her boss had his own series of visits to the White House. There is already evidence that targeting was done. Now we just have to figure out where it started.

Nick Nyhart, the CEO of a liberal organization that criticizes corporate campaign spending and employs the wife of former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the White House seven times and had two visits with President Obama around the time that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

Nyhart, the president and CEO of Public Campaign, appears on the White House visitor logs seven times between September 16, 2009 and September 22, 2010.

Public Campaign is a liberal Washington-based organization that “aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics” and operates on the same office floor as the liberal groups Center for Progressive Leadership and Common Cause, which also urged Shulman to scrutinize the tax-exempt status of conservative nonprofit groups.

Public Campaign is funded by the pro-Obamacare coalition Health Care for America NOW! and other progressive donors and foundations.

IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, one of subjects of Congress’s invesetigation into the agency’s targeting of tea-party groups, visited the White House nine times since 2010, according to the administrator’s visitor access records.

In April 2012, Wilkins attended a small meeting with President Obama in the Roosevelt Room, though records do not indicate the subject of the meeting. The private events on the president’s schedule for that day, aside from the presidential daily briefing, are an 11:00 a.m. meeting with senior advisers and a 4:45 p.m. meeting with former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. It is unclear which of these meetings Wilkins attended, if either, or if his meeting with the president simply did not appear on Obama’s public schedule.

Wilkins also visited the White House in previous years, attending what appears to be a large event on December 15, 2012; the following day, December 16, he was present at a small meeting with then–deputy director of the National Economic Council Jason Furman, who is now the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In August 2011, Wilkins also met with Jamal Pope, who identifies himself as a special assistant for White House initiatives at the Department of Commerce. Wilkins’s other visits were for large events that extended to all administration appointees. Knowing what Wilkins discussed in his meetings with the president and with administration officials Furman and Pope would shed light on whether the Obama administration directed the IRS to discriminate against conservative groups.

From the article - convenient that they’re on the same floor as Progressive Leadership & Common Cause (note that Common Cause Education Fund is listed under their Major Funding below):

“Public Campaign is a liberal Washington-based organization that “aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics” and operates on the same office floor as the liberal groups Center for Progressive Leadership and Common Cause, which also urged Shulman to scrutinize the tax-exempt status of conservative nonprofit groups.”

I was curious how they were ‘classified’ by the IRS. I didn’t want to go to their website (though ended up there anyway via a link), so went to Wikipedia (I know, you can’t always believe what you read there) and found the below:

“Public Campaign is a non-profit, non-partisan liberal organization that aims to reduce the role of special interest money in American politics. Public Campaign works to bring publicly funded elections to local, state, and federal elections. Currently, seven states and two cities have some form of publicly funded elections.

Public Campaign is itself a 501(c)(3) organisation which pays no taxes and receives tax-deductible contributions. Unlike a 501(c)(4) — contributions to which are not tax deductible — as a 501(c)(3) “it may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Campaign

There was a link on the above wiki page that took me to the Public Campaign page below (wiki page says: retrieved as of 28 January 2013). Here are their Board of Directors and Major Funding:

Board of Directors:

Joan Mandle, Ph.D., Chair
Executive Director
Democracy Matters
Hamilton, NY

Hon. Richard Romero, Vice-Chair
Former New Mexico State Senate President
Albuquerque, NM

Dan Petegorsky, Secretary/Treasurer
Former Executive Director
Western States Center
Portland, OR

Alex Cole
Hattaway Group
Washington, D.C.

Ilyse Hogue (On Leave)
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America
Washington, D.C.

Becky Glass
Deputy Director
Labor Network for Sustainability
Madison, WI

Heather McGhee
Vice President of Policy and Outreach
Demos
Washington, D.C.

Whitney North Seymour, Jr.
Landy & Seymour
Former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
New York, NY

Major Funding for Public Campaign is provided by the following sources

Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock
Mitchell Kapor Foundation
Common Cause Education Fund
Richard Mazess
Compton Foundation
Democracy Education Fund
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
John Hunting
Copen Family Fund
Harold Simmons Foundation, Inc.
Deborah Salkind
Anonymous
Committee for Economic Development
Columbia Foundation
Alan Davis
The Streisand Foundation
Arkay Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Proteus Fund
Health Care for America Now!
Proteus Fund
http://www.publicampaign.org/about/directors-funders

Keep the name Robert Bauer up front.

It came down thru Bob Bauer the White House General Consul who met with Shulman over 118 times at the Whitehouse.
Then Shulman assigned it to Lerner. This scandal goes all the way back up to the top in the White House.

Read below on Bauer.

I hope that the GOP can tie this goon back to Shulman who visited the White House 122 times but couldn’t remember anything.

Read more about Bauer below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-bauer/gIQAgz4w6O_topic.html

Outgoing White House Counsel (December 2009 to June 2011)

Why He Matters
Bauer is one of the nation’s pre-eminent experts on election and campaign finance law, and his views are enormously influential with Democrats.

Married to Anita Dunn.

Another article:
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/11/28/democratic-lawyerobama-advisor-bob-bauer-to-teach-at-nyu/

Bauer is returning to New York University Law School this spring to teach a seminar on political reform.
The course will encompass campaign finance, lobbying laws, voting rights and more—topics Mr. Bauer has had ample exposure to during his 30 years of practice as a lawyer, which include stints working for political campaigns and the Democratic National Committee.

It gets better.

Read the end of this paragraph.
During his time on the campaign trail, Mr. Bauer led challenges to new voter laws backed by Republicans—including suing the state of Ohio in July—and lobbied the Federal Election Commission to allow individuals to text in donations (as did his Romney counterpart). Mr. Bauer also sought to compel the well-funded Republican advocacy group Crossroads GPS to disclose the names of its donors, citing millions of dollars the group has spent on campaign ads attacking Democrats.

This is the guy who pulled the chains with the IRS on behalf of the White House.

You can’t make this stuff up. On May 21, 2013 Obama appointed Bob Bauer to A FEC Presidential Commission on Election Administration.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/presidential-commission-on-election-administration-launched-208362001.html

LOOKING TO STEAL MORE VOTES IN THE FUTURE.

Commission to identify practical, real-world solutions to long voter lines, access to polls.

WASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Presidential Commission on Election Administration was officially launched today, following President Barack Obama ‘s State of the Union pledge to identify non-partisan ways to shorten lines at polling places, promote the efficient conduct of elections, and provide better access to the polls for all voters.

The 10-member Commission will submit a final report to the President within six months of its first public meeting, which is expected to be held in Washington in June. Headed by Co-Chairs Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg , the Commissioners are experts in election administration, policy and procedures, or leaders from customer service-oriented businesses and industry.

“The President’s expectation is clear,” said Co-Chair Bob Bauer , who served President Obama as White House counsel from December 2009 until 2011, and as General Counsel to the President’s re-election committee and to the Democratic National Committee. “The Commission is charged with developing recommendations based on the best information available for administrative practices that afford voters the opportunity to cast ballots without undue delay and improve their overall experience.”

” The Commission was created by Executive Order 13644, Establishment of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. Commissioners were appointed by the President.:

Robert F. Bauer , Co-Chair and Member – Partner, Perkins Coie LLP

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