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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ginni Thomas just had her tax-exempt status revoked. Good for the IRS. [View all]
Yeah....the rightwing blogosphere is all aflutter because Gary Aldrich, the former FBI agent who claimed that Hillary Clinton decorated the White House with condoms and crackpipes at Christmas just had his group's tax exempt status revoked---
The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, based in Manassas, Va., has shown a pattern of deliberate and consistent intervention in political campaigns and made repeated statements supporting or opposing various candidates by expressing its opinion of the respective candidates character and qualifications, according to a written determination released by the IRS Friday.
http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/04/21/hillary-clinton-tax-exemption-revoked/
http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/04/21/hillary-clinton-tax-exemption-revoked/
Who really gives a shit about that has-been though, right?????
It's who he merged with in 2010---Ginni Thomas's Liberty Central, the anti-ACA, Tea Party front that both she and Clarence used to funnel cash through.
The centers most recent tax return disclosed $343,503 in revenue for tax year 2012. In recent years, its become aligned with the Tea Party movement, contributing to at least one of the groups targeted for extra scrutiny by the IRS beginning in 2010. Also in 2010, the Patrick Henry Center merged with Liberty Central, an advocacy group headed by Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese serves on the centers board.
One can only hope that some intrepid reporter, somewhere, will follow this story.
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Ginni Thomas just had her tax-exempt status revoked. Good for the IRS. [View all]
msanthrope
Apr 2014
OP
Remember this episode from around the time she and Aldrich apparently merged????
msanthrope
Apr 2014
#4
Congress can impeach, but I think that unlikely. He and Scalia get off on their inappropriate,
msanthrope
Apr 2014
#8
I don't know...might be kinda cool having Scalia, Thomas, and possibly Alito facing an HRC
msanthrope
Apr 2014
#37
I hope he does. I'd love to see that lush testify about how she was wronged. nt
msanthrope
Apr 2014
#11
She'll just have to content herself with the Supreme Court Justice in her pocket.
Orsino
Apr 2014
#19
This is a very courageous act on the part of the IRS, given all they have experienced lately.
merrily
Apr 2014
#21
Wanna' bet Justice Thomas won't recuse himself when this comes before the Supreme Court?
groundloop
Apr 2014
#31
What schtick do you face this happy news with? I can't figure out who is responding....
msanthrope
Apr 2014
#41