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less serious we're just going to move from the real
to the more fantastical
to the pure fantasy
and we've got some sound clips uh... that we'll play
as we go further but
michelle bachman
has spoken out about the uh...
r s
scandal
and remember now we have twenty five percent of the three hundred scrutinize
groups that were applying
for the
five oh one
what is at five oh one c_ four
designation
the five oh one c_ four designation
one that allows your group too
create profits tax free
they cannot be used those profits
for the benefit are very individual
and they cannot be used
for primarily
election hearing prada 'em purposes
that's a very vague standard and that's where the i_r_s_ has trouble determining
that
these groups as opposed to a five oh one three si which is tax deduction did it
which in which donations are tax deductible not the case
the five oh one c_ four
the
advantage how they don't have giving to a final one c_ four
organization
is merely
that you are kept anonymous
and so you're in a bowl
too
promote the social welfare her
as a primary function
and electioneering has a perhaps secondary function
without any accountability whatsoever
so basically there's a group of that is looking to
to get a special
tax status
so any scrutiny
of
these three hundred groups twenty five percent of which were tea party groups
is not
we're going to disturb randomly investigate these groups it is going to
be that you need to cross a threshold
to prove to us
that your activities
are not going to be
contra power
brought this
and
if u have any red flags that may lead us to believe that you're not gonna fall
these rules
we're going to subject you to added scrutiny
how do we go about doing this well
from the i_r_s_'s perspective there flooded
with applications because following citizens united it open up the
floodgates for these things
now they should have gone after
basically ah... those organizations where
people who were
former advisers former campaign managers whatever it was
uh... to politicians
and to some extent they may have we haven't seen the full list is as to who
was uh... subjected
to increased scrutiny that's gonna be really shortly
but they clearly when after groups that said
republican
or democrat
and they chose to be party simply because at that time
in two thousand ten the tea party with putting up its own candidates
some t t party organizations were more
grass roots i guess in just organizing and others
rory into towards getting
politicians are on the ballot and having them wet
probably not the best way to go about it but michelle bachman has come out and
said
going to the other end in post
michelle bachman
suggested sunday that the i_r_s_ is targeting of conservative groups during
the twenty twelve presidential campaign undermines the elections credibility
and then why not
to do not a question whether the agency would deny health care coverage for
conservatives
and russia gets from a to b
she perceives the election outcome would have been different
now granted none of these groups were rejected
there were some that withdrew their applications
essentially because the bar was too high to climb weather from a practical
standpoint or from a notion of that their organization didn't meet the
requirements
but if this is a case isn't this
prime a face sheet
evidence that maybe these groups
were interested in
promoting certain political um... outcomes in terms of candidates
if this undermines the credibility of that election
we learned that during an election obama interfered with the first amendment
rights of conservatism tea party members by intimidating
and harassing these organizations
now it's simply meant that these organizations need it dot across a
higher bar to receive a special tax status
and there is no indication that other groups words simile
subjected
to this scrutiny
but this is michelle bachman
the