Americans United Asks IRS To Investigate Partisan Politicking At Liberty University

[Adsos Letter]

Source: AU Press Release

Americans United for Separation of Church and State today asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a pattern of partisan politics at Liberty University, asserting that Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. used school resources to intervene in a November House of Delegates election.

In a letter to the IRS, Americans United says Falwell and other Liberty officials used the official school newspaper, Liberty Champion, to repeatedly attack incumbent Shannon Valentine and endorse her opponent, Scott Garrett. Garrett won the election by about 200 votes after returns came in from a precinct heavily populated by Liberty students.

“We have documented a clear pattern of partisan intervention orchestrated by top Liberty officials,” said Americans United Executive Director Barry W. Lynn. “I believe the evidence is clear that Liberty officials have violated the law.”

AU’s letter – the result of more than three months of investigating – makes the following allegations:

http://www.au.org/media/press-releases/archives/au-asks-irs-to-investigate.html

[jwirr]

1. Get rid of their tax exempt status and quit giving government student

aid to students from that college. That would stop their idiocy.

[blueworld]

2. Bravo! And they lost their bid to make the school a "polling place". Bravo! n/t