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(60,364 posts) Sat Apr 5, 2014, 07:58 AM Apr 2014

Clint Eastwood Is Smiling: IRS Grants Hollywood's Conservative Action Fund Full Non-Profit Status

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-berkowitz/55176/clint-eastwood-is-smiling-irs-grants-hollywoods-conservative-action-fund-full-non-profit-status

Clint Eastwood Is Smiling: IRS Grants Hollywood's Conservative Action Fund Full Non-Profit Status
by Bill Berkowitz | April 4, 2014 - 10:02am

Clint Eastwood, Gary Sinise, Kelsey Grammer, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jon Voight, Dennis Miller, Patricia Heaton, Robert Duvall, Pat Boone, and David Mamet are all members of Friends of Abe.

When Sinise founded it in 2004 -- with help from longtime screenwriter, producer and director, Lionel Chetwind -- Friends of Abe was a secretive and quasi-underground operation. Until recently, little was known about the organization other than it is named after Abraham Lincoln, and, that its events brought such top-shelf conservatives as Ted Cruz, Karl Rove, Scott Walker, Antonin Scalia, Liz Cheney, Rick Perry, Rush Limbaugh, Paul Ryan and Ann Coulter, out to Hollywood to meet up with conservatives in the entertainment industry.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz "suggested to the Hollywood Reporter that IRS's reluctance to immediately ordain FOA as a nonprofit tax-free charity was a left-wing government conspiracy," AlterNet's Adam Parfrey recently reported.

Now, after nearly three years of battling the Internal Revenue Service over its tax-exempt status, the Friends of Abe (FOA), which claims to have no political agenda and considers itself an educational fellowship, was granted 501(c)(3) status.

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Clint Eastwood Is Smiling: IRS Grants Hollywood's Conservative Action Fund Full Non-Profit Status (Original Post) unhappycamper Apr 2014 OP

Somewhere, he probably is. Kath1 Apr 2014 #1

Nice sigline. unhappycamper Apr 2014 #2

Thanks! Kath1 Apr 2014 #3

Well, we know who the chair is: tanyev Apr 2014 #4

Kath1

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1. Somewhere, he probably is.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Apr 5, 2014, 08:24 AM

Apr 2014

"Ted Cruz, Karl Rove, Scott Walker, Antonin Scalia, Liz Cheney, Rick Perry, Rush Limbaugh, Paul Ryan and Ann Coulter" - No political agenda? Educational? What?!!! And why was Palin not on this list of "educational" speakers?

"...a left-wing government conspiracy" - Yes, just like most things that make sense.

I think it is ridiculous but take comfort in knowing that Hollywood remains overwhelmingly liberal.

I'd rather have Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Barbra Streisand, Michael Moore, Eva Longoria, Alec Baldwin, Cher and Susan Sarandon on MY side any day!