We already knew that former IRS commissioner Doug Shulman’s wife, Susan L. Anderson, worked for a liberal activist group, Public Campaign.
And we briefly mentioned that at one point she had some kind of connection to the Occupy Wall Street movement:
DC, good morning! Come down to the Mall and tell your 99% story! pic.twitter.com/82lo24w7
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) December 6, 2011
We didn’t know until now, however, that she also worked for Obama For America (see tweet above).
Nor did we know that she talked smack about Karl Rove’s group, American Crossroads.
bwaaahahaha! “@aterkel: American Crossroads insists donors standing by Rove, blames losses on "very weak candidates" http://t.co/qZKXFHuw”
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) November 9, 2012
Karl Rove, Crossroads, Get Money Out! #fairelections #rebuildthedream pic.twitter.com/x96JsBvs
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) June 20, 2012
Yes, that’s the same American Crossroads whose confidential documents were leaked by the IRS to ProPublica.
Anderson’s tweets reveal antipathy toward the Tea Party, the Republican Party, the NRA, Grover Norquist, and “Angry Old Rich Guys” — in other words, most conservatives in America:
Bcause they were armed: in re violence @ MI union protest AFP Phillips says "we never in the tea party saw anything like a physical assault"
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) December 11, 2012
yes @ch3yl – prob with GOP they cn put lipstick on pig but pig still old racist + resistant 2 embrace fellow Americans http://t.co/QAjhvJAm
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) August 30, 2012
Ooops, #issa doesn't like it when he is not entitled to his own facts. Postpones hearing to save GOP face. http://bit.ly/rjHMdy
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) July 13, 2011
“@samsteinhp: Head Start kids should just start complaining about the long tarmac delays they're dealing with” or cancer corpses.
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) April 26, 2013
#stopthenra rally in McPherson Sq pic.twitter.com/e0tAhsYiqo
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) April 25, 2013
As if Grover cared abt seniors poor + non ESL @ProPublica story abt Norquist others blocked return-free tax filing: http://t.co/RQzvLTgnoN”
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) March 29, 2013
@sahilkapur Yes, GOP solution to health care crisis = donut holes for seniors, nada for rest of us
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) March 24, 2013
exactly! “@adambonin: Pages 67-68 of the RNC post-mortem can be reduced to "continue the gutting of campaign finance law."”
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) March 18, 2013
Why don't they shut up and create some jobs! Angry Old Rich Guys Who Hate Obama http://t.co/hK3l4Mqc via @thedailybeast
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) October 11, 2012
Of course, she has the right to express her opinion. And there’s no evidence that Anderson improperly influenced her husband, Shulman, who was a George W. Bush appointee.
But suffice to say, as more and more information flows, we at Twitchy Team greet every new twist and turn in the IRS scandalabra with our #shockedfaces on.
Update:
We changed the headline of this article. The original version’s headline was “Tweets by former IRS chief’s wife reveal liberal political views.” We decided that this underplayed the radicalism of Anderson’s views.
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