Letters: GOP Constituents Want NAACP Probe

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/may/18/051800311.html

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.

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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.

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If they want a war over this we should give them one.

When the president of the NAACP is prevented from stating FACTS about the neocon machine we have a problem.

So the NAACP should lose its tax-exempt status because it criticizes Bush. Yet the fundie churches and freeper think tanks can sing his praises and demonise 'liburals' all fucking day long and that's fine and dandy, right?

Damn them uppity blacks for daring to utter a 'political' opinion. Don't they know their place?

It seems not to have occured to the Repugs that saying Shrub is a usless, evil c*nt isn't a political opinion, it's a simple statement of fact.