Ouch!
Members of the press were indeed in attendance at Thursday morning’s FreedomWorks presser with representatives from Tea Party groups harassed by the IRS.
Tea Party newser outside Capitol includes people who've been battling with IRS over tax-exempt status
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 16, 2013
Reps from the Tea Party orgs skewered the IRS and revealed some of the ways in which they were targeted.
One woman says she's been waiting on her application for 3+ years, says this smacks of a "totalitarian system"
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 16, 2013
One Tea Party rep says the IRS asked him for 3 years of private emails as part of a tax-exempt review
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 16, 2013
Outrageous.
We are Chicagoland. “@jamiedupree: One Tea Party rep says the IRS asked him for 3 years of private emails as part of a tax-exempt review”
— Donna Lee (@DonnaMarieLee) May 16, 2013
More from the presser:
http://twitter.com/lachlan/statuses/335028110741340161
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Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots: "the IRS must be audited…IRS has been used as a weapon to silence speech."
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 16, 2013
Great to join my fellow Constitutional conservatives in calling for a full investigation on IRS this morning #TCOT pic.twitter.com/buKfBiQGI6
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/335025593345245185
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/335025134018650113
Think this is over now that the acting IRS commissioner is on his way out? Not by a long shot, according to a lawyer with the American Center for Law and Justice.
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/335029690307842048
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