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(IBD) Lois Lerner Targeted Dick Durbin Senate Opponent
Investor's Business Daily ^
| June 3, 2013
| IBD EDITORIALS
Posted on 06/03/2013 7:04:42 PM PDT by raptor22
Scandal: Before his 2010 letter urging the IRS to target conservatives, the Senate majority whip's 1996 campaign benefited from the targeting of his opponent by a Federal Election Commission official with a familiar name.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics with the 1996 targeting of Illinois conservative Al Salvi by a familiar name, Lois Lerner, then head of the Enforcement Division of the Federal Elections Commission.
That year, Democrat U.S. Rep. Dick Durbin and Republican State Rep. Al Salvi were locked in a battle for the U.S. Senate seat Durbin would eventually win.
As the journal Illinois Review details, Salvi was confronted with an "October surprise," not one, but two, FEC complaints filed against him one by Illinois Democrats about the way he reported a loan he made to himself, and another by the Democratic Senatorial Committee about a reported business donation.
The late inning complaints stalled Salvo's campaign against Durbin. "We couldn't get our message out because day after day, the media carried story after story about the FEC complaint," Salvi told Illinois Review.
This tactic of keeping political opponents busy was repeated by IRS Exempt Organizations Division chief Lerner on her targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups in the 2012 presidential campaign.
Salvi recognized Lerner when she invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee as the woman who made him an offer: "Promise me you will never run for office again, and we'll drop this case."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: alsalvi; chicago; chicagoway; dickdurbin; englebrecht; fec; ibd; irs; irsscandal; loislerner; teaparty
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:04:42 PM PDT
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raptor22
To: raptor22
She seems to be a real prick.
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:06:49 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(In November 2016 my 12 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
To: raptor22
Anyone surprised by this?
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:07:22 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
To: raptor22
1996 campaign , is that where she wanted 200k and him to promise to never run again or is there another
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:07:34 PM PDT
by
molson209
To: raptor22
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:08:19 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: 1010RD; BillyBoy; Impy; PhilCollins; Dr. Sivana; BlackElk; chicagolady
Speaking of Al Salvi as I mentioned in my earlier post... The Combine has had help from DC in sabotaging IL Reformists going back 2 decades now.
To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:11:50 PM PDT
by
raptor22
(Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
To: jimfree
These democrat cretins in the Obama administration make the book 1984 look like a kids fairy tale
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:12:30 PM PDT
by
Democrat_media
(IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
To: cripplecreek
She needs to be looking down at her feet with shackles and an orange jumpsuit on.
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:13:57 PM PDT
by
Shady
(The Truth will set us free....WE KNOW THE TRUTH!)
To: Shady
You’re being far too kind. The truly evil among us deserve to lose whatever is most important to them in life—whatever it might be.
What is hers? I have no clue, but everyone has something.
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:17:11 PM PDT
by
Windcatcher
(Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
To: Democrat_media
If these totalitarian SOB’s want 1984 so badly, perhaps they should be sent to room 101.
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:18:39 PM PDT
by
Windcatcher
(Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: SoldierDad
Lois Lerner is a typical democrat: a criminal communist , socialist thug hell bent on destroying all our freedoms and America. The Democrat party is a a criminal organization and the enemy of Americans. The democrat party also completely controls the media. that is their most powerful weapon to enslave us
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:19:45 PM PDT
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Democrat_media
(IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
To: Grampa Dave; granite; GreenFreeper; grjr21; I got the rope; IchBinEinBerliner; jaredt112; JayB; ...
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:20:30 PM PDT
by
raptor22
(Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
To: raptor22
If the people who authorized and directed the IRS harrassment -- people like Lois Lerner and her ilk --
don't go to jail over this blatent criminality, we will have lowered the bar forever on the behavior of public "servants".
Prosecutions and prison time are absolutely necessary in the face of such corruption.
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:27:44 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE --)
To: okie01
I was disappointed when President Bush refused to prosecute the Clinton crime cartel. In my opinion, you can forget about anyone being prosecuted for this scandle unless they happen to be a Republican.
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:34:04 PM PDT
by
sport
To: cripplecreek
Is that Pelosi’s twin sister???
To: jimfree
People are going to jail over this one...
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posted on
06/03/2013 7:52:27 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Swedes bring their cars..savages their flames..burning cars a metaphor. D. Greenfield)
To: Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...
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posted on
06/03/2013 8:08:03 PM PDT
by
raptor22
(Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
To: raptor22
I want this woman out of government forever! She is a partisan hack and an evil, vile woman who is not fit to serve!
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