McCain's office urged IRS to use audits as weapons to destroy political advocacy groups
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Somehow this doesn't surprise me about John McCain:
A new report from Judicial Watch reveals a concerted effort from Sen. John McCain’s office to urge the IRS under Lois Lerner to strike out against political advocacy groups, including tea party organizations.
Thanks to the results of an extensive Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that has been delayed for many years, Judicial Watch has obtained several key emails from 2013 that chronicle McCain’s and Democrat Sen. Carl Levin’s efforts to reign in the advocacy groups that sprouted immediately following the Citizens United decision from the Supreme Court.
The documents uncovered by Judicial Watch include notes from a high-level meeting on April 30, 2013 between powerful members of McCain’s and Levin’s staffs and Lerner, then-director of tax exempt organizations at the IRS under Barack Obama. The notes reveal the suggestions from McCain’s former staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee, Henry Kerner who urges Lerner to use IRS audits on the advocacy groups to financially ruin them:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/22/mccains-office-urged-irs-use-audits-weapons-destro/
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paste the rest of the article pops...
UPDATE 2: My friend Patterico has known Mr. Kerner for many years and he sheds some more light on this topic. He maintains that the meeting had nothing to do with the Tea Party groups and points out that Lerner’s Tea Party targeting had already happened well before this meeting took place.
Henry is the last person in the world who would ever be a part of targeting Tea Party groups. He was instrumental in calling out the IRS for what it did.
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Nothing in the quoted passage from the IRS staffer’s notes suggests that Henry was talking about Tea Party groups — and Lois Lerner’s admission that the IRS had previously targeted these groups came just ten days later, meaning that the IRStargeting had long since happened before Henry asked the question (assuming the notes are accurate, which I do not). Obviously, the years-long targeting did not take place in ten days. So what was Henrytalking about? Even though the IRS/Tea Party scandal was an outrage, there are definitely non-profits that abuse their status as supposedly apolitical outfits (can you say ACORN?) and a new staffer asking questions about what to do about such abusive groups is hardly evidence of targeting groups for improper reasons.
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the updates to.this story certainly point to mccain targeting groups like acorn...which all republicans were targeting.
this is a half ass atmpt by some people to associate mccain with liberals.
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mccain was a dirtbag, that just clinches it even more. A texsag hero.
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the updates to.this story certainly point to mccain targeting groups like acorn...which all republicans were targeting.
this is a half ass atmpt by some people to associate mccain with liberals.
the updates to.this story certainly point to mccain targeting groups like acorn...which all republicans were targeting.
this is a half ass atmpt by some people to associate mccain with liberals.
LOL associate McCain with liberals...the guy who campaigned against Obamacare and then was the deciding vote against repeal of Obamacare:
John McCain's health care hypocrisy | Editorial
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2017/07/john_mccains_health_care_contradiction_editorial.html
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Watch Classless McCain Betray the Republican Party, Whoop It Up with Democrats
Senator John McCain betrayed his party and the people who voted for him on his promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. He told the Democrats beforehand but not the Majority Leader or most Republicans that he was planning to vote against the bill.
He was seen hugging Schumer and Feinstein and laughing it up with Democrats after the vote. Several Democrats are alleged to have heard him say, “Let’s see Donald make America great again.”
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John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.
That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.
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John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.
That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.
WSS
John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.
That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.
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"John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine."
Which is why Trump who never served in the military was wrong to criticize his war record. I think every American should respect McCain for what he went through for five years as a POW.
As a politician McCain stunk and his vote on not repealing Obamacare is all you need to know about how petty he could be when he threw his constituents (who believed him when he campaigned on repealing Obamacare) under the bus and voted with the democrats not to repeal Obamacare just to spite Trump.
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John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.
That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.
WSS
"John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine."
Which is why Trump who never served in the military was wrong to criticize his war record. I think every American should respect McCain for what he went through for five years as a POW.
As a politician McCain stunk and his vote on not repealing Obamacare is all you need to know about how petty he could be when he threw his constituents (who believed him when he campaigned on repealing Obamacare) under the bus and voted with the democrats not to repeal Obamacare just to spite Trump.
"John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine."
Which is why Trump who never served in the military was wrong to criticize his war record. I think every American should respect McCain for what he went through for five years as a POW.
exactly.
As a politician McCain stunk and his vote on not repealing Obamacare is all you need to know about how petty he could be when he threw his constituents (who believed him when he campaigned on repealing Obamacare) under the bus and voted with the democrats not to repeal Obamacare just to spite Trump.
also exactly.
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John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.
That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.
WSS
John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.
That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.
WSS
who here loved john McCain?
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John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.
That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.
WSS
who here loved john McCain?
who here loved john McCain?
Tex for one.
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John McCain put up with more shit at the Hanoi Hilton the most Americans could ever imagine.
That doesn't give him a free pass to be a crooked politician furthermore you liberals hated the guy's guts when he was in office, and now only love him because he feuded with Trump who you hate worse.
WSS
who here loved john McCain?
who here loved john McCain?
I appreciated him for his service to our country.
As a politician, he was as useful as a dick on a statue.
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