Republicans Sought IRS Probe of NAACP

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5830587,00.html

That they actually did this, or that nobody is surprised that they did this? And, by the way, when do those "Justice Sunday" churches get taxed?!

to admit these @$$holes have been running the country. Simply pathetic.

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by a corrupt and abusive administration.

political enough...oh well...

yes maybe a few but not nearly as many as there should be.

With all the churches/religious figures that have jumped into politics???

Documents highlight GOP scrutiny of NAACP
Republicans passed along constituent requests that IRS probe organization

Updated: 2 hours, 9 minutes ago

BALTIMORE - Several Republican members of Congress forwarded constituents’ letters to the Internal Revenue Service claiming the NAACP had veered into political advocacy, a potential violation of the civil rights group’s tax-exempt status, according to documents released by the NAACP.

The IRS began looking into the Baltimore-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People about a month before the 2004 presidential election after a speech by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond that was largely critical of President Bush’s policies.

Political campaigning is prohibited under the NAACP’s tax-exempt status. The IRS said its inquiry would focus on whether Bond’s speech was too political, and that the investigation is among dozens into the activities of tax-exempt groups during the 2004 election season.

The NAACP received more than 500 pages of documents the IRS has gathered to begin its inquiry and posted them on its Web site. The group had made requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

The documents include letters that members of Congress sent to the IRS on behalf of their constituents. The lawmakers include Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Susan M. Collins of Maine, Rep. Jo Ann Davis of Virginia, the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and former Reps. Larry Combest of Texas and Joe Scarborough of Florida. All are Republicans.


Read the rest here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12860202/

letters to the IRS about Robertson and Falwell's tax exempt religious scams that prey on poor dumb elderly white people. I;m sure the IRS will then open an invesatigation of their organizations just like they did with the NCAAP, right?

Really, what if we took all the dirty tricks and all of the unethical tactics of the Republicans away? Would they even continue to exist?

What if the IRS investigated every evangelical church that was actively campaigning for GOP candidates?

or mentions ANY political issue, should lose its tax-exempt status as well, then.

nope, its purely a tax matter !

nice to see the bigots expose themselves.