Government War On Conservatives Still On [Christine O'Donnell vs. FEC]

Canada Free Press ^ | October 23, 2013 | Jonathon Moseley

[Moseley]

The government’s war on conservatives hasn’t stopped. On Saturday, Christine O’Donnell revealed a second onslaught from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in addition to the illegal accessing and abuse of her income tax records by the Internal Revenue Service. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is investigating the IRS on that. News recently broke that the IRS targeted Dr. Ben Carson, for the first time, immediately after he criticized Barack Obama.

O’Donnell revealed on Saturday morning that the FEC is demanding payment of tribute (my words) to settle false accusations invented by a George Soros front group. Perhaps such shakedowns are an FEC money source like country speed traps.

For example, in 1996, in the U.S. Senate race in Illinois, the FEC demanded that Republican Al Salvi pay $200,000 in fines to settle Democrat complaints filed against him. The same, now-infamous Lois Lerner worked at the FEC before carrying her partisan witch hunt over to the IRS.

The FEC kept lowering its demands for money from Salvi, coupled with frightening threats. The FEC dropped its ransom demand to $100,000, then to $40,000.

[Moseley]

Finally, Lois Lerner offered to drop the case if Salvi pledged never to run for office again. Nearly four years and a hundred thousand dollars in legal fees later, Federal judge George Lindbergh threw the case out, shocking FEC attorney Lerner (who argued the case in court). “We never lose!” Lerner said to Salvi afterwards. But four years of scandal destroyed Salvi’s political career.

Now remember this is about you, dear reader. If government bureaucrats can do this to Christine O’Donnell, who can get on TV when she wants, are you safe? What protection do you have? We need to remember that these events impact and should concern all of us, not just one woman. Place yourself in this story.

To see how partisan the FEC is acting, one should understand the absurdity of the allegations against Christine O’Donnell:

[MrB]

JF Kennedy said that when you make change of government impossible to accomplish by peaceful means,
it makes change of government by violent means inevitable.

[txrefugee]

This is the real “extortion” that is going on, not the phony “extortion” that the wild-eyed Obumbles was fulminating against during the fake government slow-down.

[onedoug]

“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.”

[TBP]

We need to support Christine. She made a valiant run on our behalf. (I’d love to see her run again.)

[faucetman]

AMEN to that! She was a GREAT candidate! If the GOPe had actually supported her she might have won. She is routinely trashed here on FR, buying into Dem talking points.

She was SMEARED with LIES and BULL$HIT (Witch nonsense). All proved to be FALSE! She told the truth, did nothing illegal and has been vindicated of any wrongdoing.

[SC_Pete]

Impeachment. Nothing less.

[NTHockey]

>>(2) CREW also repeated a mistake by a reporter, claiming that Christine O’Donnell was paying for her personal townhouse with campaign funds. But Christine had two townhouses in the Greenville subdivision, one where Christine lived and a second one used for the campaign. Reporter Ginger Gibson mangled the facts, and others keep repeating this error. Gibson admits that the campaign was so upset that Gibson was banned from campaign events starting way back in March 2010. Choosing a second townhouse saved on hotel expenses. The kitchen and living room were cleared out and filled with desks and filing cabinets.<<

I can attest to that, as an O’Donnell campaign volunteer. I visited the office townhouse in question. The townhouse was as described.