NPR Some Lawmakers Want Big-Budget Groups Included In IRS Debate By Peter Overby Tea Party leaders and lawmakers in the House Republicans’ Tea Party Caucus rallied Thursday on Capitol Hill, expressing alarm over the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status as 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., invoked the …
Read More →The New York Times Take Politics Away From the I.R.S. By: The Editorial Board President Obama’s decision on Wednesday to dismiss the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service was a largely symbolic demonstration of anger and authority. The official, Steven Miller, was not directly involved in the misguided decision to single out Tea Party …
Read More →CBS News Is IRS missing a bigger tax-exempt scandal? By: Wyatt Andrews
Read More →The Washington Post’s Wonkblog ‘Crossroads GPS and Priorities USA were created for the purpose of hiding donors’ By Dylan Matthews Fred Wertheimer is the founder and president of Democracy 21, a leading campaign finance reform organization. He worked for Common Cause for 24 years, serving as a lobbyist for the Watergate reforms and as a …
Read More →The Washington Post IRS has been too lax on tax-exempt status By Ruth Marcus Sputtering adjectives — outrageous, appalling, intolerable — can scarcely do justice to the fiasco involving the Internal Revenue Service’s reported targeting of conservative groups.But the current scandal obscures — and, ironically, threatens to prevent action on — another, equally corrosive failure …
Read More →Time The Real IRS Scandal By Alex Altman The IRS is unpopular on its best days, and the past few have been among its worst. The agency’s admission that it targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny drew condemnation from across the political spectrum on Monday. “Outrageous,” declared Barack Obama. House and Senate leaders from both …
Read More →The New York Times The I.R.S. Audits Are Condemned By the Editorial Board The Internal Revenue Service was absolutely correct to look into the abuse of the tax code by political organizations masquerading as “social welfare” groups over the last three years. The agency’s mistake — and it was a serious one — was focusing …
Read More →The Huffington Post FEC Commissioners All Serving Expired Terms Now By: Paul Blumenthal WASHINGTON — All five sitting commissioners at the Federal Election Commission are now serving expired terms, while the sixth seat remains unfilled since a commissioner retired on Feb. 1, 2013. FEC Commissioner Caroline Hunter’s term expired on Tuesday. Until their replacements are …
Read More →Mother Jones California’s Dark-Money Investigation Is Making Conservatives Sweat Details of a shadowy donor network emerge as Golden State watchdogs trace the source of $11 million in election spending. By: Andy Kroll Investigators with California’s election watchdog and attorney general’s office are hot on the trail of the true source of millions in dark money …
Read More →POLITICO Op-ed The Right Kind of Reform Fred Wertheimer The indictments last week of a New York state senator and five other New York politicians in an alleged bribery scandal once again focused the public spotlight on the dangers of influence money in the political system. And as the late Sen. Russell Long of Louisiana …
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