Showing posts with label True The Vote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label True The Vote. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2014

By Jennifer Burke, Apr. 16, 2014, Tpnn.com

As if we need further evidence that the liberal lamestream media do not actually practice journalism, but rather serve as a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party, just look at what happened, or what failed to happen, when Democrat Elijah Cummings appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation. Cummings most likely knew that Face the Nationwould be a friendly environment. He declined a request by FOX News to appear on their channel to answer questions about his involvement in the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups scandal.

Cummings was recently implicated for working in collusion with the IRS in its targeting of Tea Party groups, specifically True the Vote after emails surfaced with him doing just that. While he has denied in the past any wrongdoing and feigned indignation at the mere insinuation that he did anything wrong. Cummings has even denied that there was any wrongdoing on the part of the IRS accusing the Republican Party of simply conducting a witch-hunt.

The use of the Obama IRS as a weapon to silence those who stand for the Constitution, who are against the far-left, progressive, Marxist based agenda, is a chilling reality that should concern all Americans. Yet, when Cummings appeared on Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer failed to ask him one solitary question about his criminality of lying about his role in the IRS targeting scandal and the emails that he sent the IRS about attacking True the Vote.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Source:  Salon.com
By Katie Pavlich, Apr. 9, 2014, Twonhall.com

New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. True the Vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago. Further, information shows the IRS and Cummings' staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht about her organization, indicating coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information.

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa, along with five Subcommittee Chairmen are demanding Cummings provide an explanation for the staff inquiries to the IRS about True the Vote and for his denial that his staff ever contacted the IRS about the group.
“Although you have previously denied that your staff made inquiries to the IRS about conservative organization True the Vote that may have led to additional agency scrutiny, communication records between your staff and IRS officials – which you did not disclose to Majority Members or staff – indicates otherwise,” the letter to Cummings states. “As the Committee is scheduled to consider a resolution holding Ms. Lerner, a participant in responding to your communications that you failed to disclose, in contempt of Congress, you have an obligation to fully explain your staff’s undisclosed contacts with the IRS.”


The first contact between the IRS and Cummings' staffers about True the Vote happened in August 2012. In January 2013, staff asked for more information from the IRS about the group. Former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner went out of her way to try and get information to Cummings' office.The information Cummings received was not shared with Majority Members on the Committee.

On January 28, three days after staffers requested more information, Lerner wrote an email to her deputy Holly Paz, who has since been put on administrative leave, asking, “Did we find anything?” Paz responded immediately by saying information had not been found yet, to which Lerner replied, “Thanks, check tomorrow please.”

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