Posted on 01/24/2014 7:07:56 AM PST by cotton1706
Today conservative activist James O’Keefe III accused New York Governor Cuomo of targeting his group with document requests and a subpoena. FOX News reported:
Conservative activist James O’Keefe is accusing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration of targeting his group with document requests and a subpoena, claiming the Democratic governor’s recent comments critical of conservatives “aren’t simply words.”
O’Keefe, whose Project Veritas is behind a series of hidden-camera investigations against left-leaning groups and causes, made the claims on the heels of the controversy over a recent Cuomo interview. In it, Cuomo blasted “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay” and said they “have no place” in New York. He later walked back his remarks, and said they were being taken out of context in the media.
But O’Keefe claimed that Cuomo’s government is acting on those words, revealing that the Department of Labor has hit his office in Westchester County, N.Y., with demands for financial documents for months. He compared it to IRS targeting of conservative groups nationwide.
“Governor Cuomo’s shocking words this past week aren’t simply words,” O’Keefe said in a statement. “Governor Cuomo and the New York Department of Labor are on a witch hunt, demanding all documents and financials since our founding. … His goal, of course, is to harass us and limit our effectiveness by tying us up in court. Just like President Obama used the IRS to target and suppress conservatives, Governor Cuomo is using his Department of Labor to do the same exact thing.”
A spokesman for the state labor office told The Daily Beast that it is legally required to ensure businesses pay their part of an unemployment insurance fund and provide information about outside contractors.
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Was the subpoena served by mail? “Never received it”
Or O’Keefe should copy Hillary. Get in front of a camera -
Pounding the desk and shout angrily “What. Difference. Does. It. Make.”
When Obama leaves, his circus goes with him.
They tried this overreach in Wisconsin and got their assets handed to them
Ah, but the GOP has been fighting back. Just ask any TEA party candidate.
Like Bush cleaned house after Clinton?
The people of NY sort of see it the same way cuomo does. They don’t even do a double take
Guiliani was conservative. Pro abortion pro gay marriage pro gun control. His success as mayor came from establishing rules and maintaining them.
Speaking loosely, A great reduction in crime resulted also a huge improvement in infrastructure. He had been fed atty gen in manhattan prior to this and destroyed the mafia’s power to a large extent
New Yorkers hated him (50% of them anyway I guess). What’s with all the rules!? I’ll get flamed here, but I speak loosely he was NOT perfect
This is their idea of a conservative. And guiliani is only an example. So they imagine a pro life pro traditional marriage second amendment observer to be not only a feel but a wacko. Ditto his supporters in flyover country
Flyover indicates they don’t associate with anyone but themselves and their media pals in la. And they don’t.
Long Island - the housewives are Oprah - and they rule, to a great extent. If they and their families vote GOP its economic. Not cultural. And those GOP pols are the same. In a way they are hicks, cut off from the world but with money and some power
I don’t know anything about upstate. I was there, in the hudson valley about ten yrs ago. It shocked me to see the economic depression, a relief to get back to rural mississippi/Alabama.
No one is rushing to a fox microphone to say the governor isn’t speaking for us
NY just last month went to second largest in population in the states. Among other factors, they lost millions of people moving out for opportunity
They advertise in Texas for people to come up and move in
But their loathing of conservative values is obvious. If they want people to move in, they’d dispute the governor but, crickets
Just my view, an opinion
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Really?
The leftist activists in the IRS, EPA, etc will all go away in 2017?
Right...
This is why liberals have to lie. If they speak what they really think, they expose their evil agenda.
Hey Cuomo, do you really want to make a martyr of James O'Keefe? Go right ahead.
Keep pushing their buttons. They’re going to overplay their hand. We want them to show their inner thug.
...to be not only a feel but a wacko’
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Meant to say not only a threat..
Many of the politicos were cleaned out, some burrowed.
Brietbart was right. We are at war.
Oh, but wait,, THE REPUBS DO IT TOO! like hell they do.
And something we have to realize,
when these Nazis get the power necessary to do so,
they will exterminate their opposition.
We’re not just political opponents, but enemies that need to be eliminated. Yes, KILLED.
“A spokesman for the state labor office told The Daily Beast that it is legally required to ensure businesses pay their part of an unemployment insurance fund and provide information about outside contractors.”
Sure and you embrace different political opinions, right commissar?
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THIS is getting FRIGHTENING!!!! How do we FIGHT this crap??
“THIS is getting FRIGHTENING!!!! How do we FIGHT this crap??”
Read as much about the American founding as possible. Because this has all happened before.
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