IRS asked about Wisconsin recall, Texas tea party group says
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http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/irs-raised-wisconsin-recall-questions-tea-party-group-says-k19vj9s-207786941.html
Madison - A Texas tea party group is saying the Internal Revenue Service questioned its leaders about whether they participated in verifying recall signatures in Wisconsin last year.
The news comes as the IRS' interim director and commissioner for tax-exempt organizations announced their departures this week amid allegations that the tax agency had improperly targeted conservative groups who were applying for tax-exempt status. Critics have said the scrutiny was outside the legal scope of the IRS and amounted to a violation of the group's First Amendment right to free speech.
The Northeast Tarrant Tea Party posted on its website that IRS officials asked for extensive information about the group's activities, including copies of all the tweets, Facebook posts and fliers that the group had sent out. Julie McCarty, president of the Fort Worth, Texas, area tea party group, said the IRS also asked it to "explain our relationship with Verify the Recall," an effort to confirm the signatures that had been turned in last year as part of the petition to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
McCarty said she thought it was clear that group had been unfairly targeted and was still waiting for a decision on its tax-exempt status. Her group had minimal involvement with the recall fight in Wisconsin or Verify the Recall, she said.
So a True the Vote is a "social welfare" organization based in Texas and had "minimal involvement' in the Wisconsin recall, but is not a political organization. Yeah, that's it.
