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IRS Gave Black Nonprofits Preferential Treatment
Investors.com ^ | 9-6-13 | Paul Sperry

Posted on 09/06/2013 11:12:00 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

At the same time the IRS harassed Republican nonprofit groups during the 2012 political campaign, it selectively advised black churches and other Democrat nonprofits on how far they can go in campaigning for President Obama and other Democrats.

This raw exercise in political favoritism has not been reported in the context of the still-smoldering IRS scandal, in which the agency in 2012 audited big GOP donors and blocked Tea Party groups trying to obtain tax-exempt status as part of what House investigators suspect was an effort to re-elect the president.

But that same year, top officials with both the IRS and Justice Department — including the IRS commissioner and attorney general — met in Washington with several dozen prominent black church ministers representing millions of voters to brief them on how to get their flocks out to vote without breaking federal tax laws.

The "summit" on energizing the black vote in houses of worship was hosted by the Democrat-controlled Congressional Black Caucus inside the U.S. Capitol on May 30, 2012.

The day before the special IRS training session, then-Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver predicted Obama would get 95% of the African-American vote — but only if black pastors "encourage" them to get to the polls. (He ended up getting over 93% of the black vote.)

IRS Goes To Church

At the time, many African-Americans were unhappy that Obama came out in support of gay marriage. So Democrats gathered them in Washington for a "pep talk," which included assurances their tax exemption would be safe if they helped deliver the vote.

It's not clear if the White House helped organize the unusual event, but two key Cabinet members — Attorney General Eric Holder and IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman — both spoke at length to the black church leaders.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 501c3; churches; discrimination; irs4blacks; irsvswhites; nonprofit; preferences; racistdnc; racistirs
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21 posted on 09/09/2013 3:28:21 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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22 posted on 09/09/2013 3:30:40 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (I love it when spell check highlights every single word.)
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23 posted on 09/09/2013 3:33:05 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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24 posted on 09/09/2013 3:35:17 PM PDT by Nachum (I am Breitbartacus!)
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25 posted on 09/09/2013 3:53:20 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: TChad
[Even with a Republican President, House, and Senate, it would be hard to eradicate the culture of leftist government workers that fosters such abuses of powers.]

The real hidden agenda behind ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank and Cap-and-Trade—if they ever pass it—is to create new bureaucratic monoliths employing tens of thousands of new federal workers who will join the union and vote Democrat.

26 posted on 09/10/2013 11:17:44 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Did Tall Ship Amistad Sail Off With $1.4M In State Money?

http://articles.courant.com/2013-06-13/news/hc-ed-amistad-questions-continue-but-few-answers-20130612_1_amistad-america-inc-state-money-the-decd

Folks in Connecticut, we have a *predicament*.

Another scandal to sweep under the rug.

27 posted on 09/11/2013 12:03:46 AM PDT by Daffynition (* “I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.* ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay)
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The Amistad society is in full implosion. It's mission: **...to make resource materials for writing and rewriting history...** on the taxpayer's dime.
28 posted on 09/11/2013 12:12:59 AM PDT by Daffynition (* “I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.* ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay)
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