A fledgling new group called the Albuquerque Tea Party formed in town in 2009 to voice opposition to Progressive politics in the United States. Wanting to do things right, we applied to the IRS for a tax exempt status. Today, after 4 ½ years, we still await a decision on our tax exempt status. Since 2009, the Tea Party has watched Lois Lerner and a host of other IRS officials receive a slap on the wrist and disappear into the night. We watched a new Commissioner of the IRS take over the helm when his predecessor retired in shame, but nothing has happened to resolve our status many months later. We have been interviewed by the Senate minority committee investigating the IRS. We have been interviewed by the House majority committee investigating the IRS. We have been interviewed by the FBI about the delays in a decision by the IRS. We have watched a past president of the Albuquerque Tea Party be audited by the IRS twice in the past four years, but the Tea Party still has not seen any resolution on our application for our tax exempt status.
Last week, it was reported by the Obama administration that some 18-months of Lois Lerner’s emails were lost when her computer crashed in 2011. Yesterday, the IRS said they have also lost emails from six additional IRS workers involved in the IRS scandal whose computers crashed—among them the computer of Nikole Flax, chief of staff to Lerner’s boss, then deputy commissioner Steven Miller—who was forced to resign.
For twenty-six years, I worked for a small financial institution. In all those years, the employees worked on computers and never lost data. Our computers were backed up nightly by our servers. In fact, one of the most time-consuming duties in my last week of work before retirement was removing all those years of emails off my system. In-other-words, either the IRS has the most dysfunctional IT department in the country or we, the American taxpayers, are being lied to by Mr. Obama’s IRS. All those emails are still out there. They were sent to someone who has them stored in their computer. The old saying was, “Follow the money.” In today’s electronic world, it is, “Follow the emails.” Investigators need to look at the existing emails that are still available and see who Lerner has been talking to by email and subpoena the email records of those people.
Article 2 in the impeachment document against Richard Nixon was regarding the use of the IRS to attack his political enemies. What is going on in Washington right now is no different than what Nixon was doing 40-years ago. Today, the “rule of law” is being abused by a president who thinks he can do whatever he wants while artfully schmoozing his political base. Lois Lerner needs to go to jail for Contempt of Congress. The IRS needs to be held to account; along with any others in higher office who have abused their power. Yes, the Tea Party has been hurt by the actions of the IRS, but we should all realize that this abuse of political power can be quickly turned on any of us regardless of our beliefs or political affiliation.
Last week, it was reported by the Obama administration that some 18-months of Lois Lerner’s emails were lost when her computer crashed in 2011. Yesterday, the IRS said they have also lost emails from six additional IRS workers involved in the IRS scandal whose computers crashed—among them the computer of Nikole Flax, chief of staff to Lerner’s boss, then deputy commissioner Steven Miller—who was forced to resign.
For twenty-six years, I worked for a small financial institution. In all those years, the employees worked on computers and never lost data. Our computers were backed up nightly by our servers. In fact, one of the most time-consuming duties in my last week of work before retirement was removing all those years of emails off my system. In-other-words, either the IRS has the most dysfunctional IT department in the country or we, the American taxpayers, are being lied to by Mr. Obama’s IRS. All those emails are still out there. They were sent to someone who has them stored in their computer. The old saying was, “Follow the money.” In today’s electronic world, it is, “Follow the emails.” Investigators need to look at the existing emails that are still available and see who Lerner has been talking to by email and subpoena the email records of those people.
Article 2 in the impeachment document against Richard Nixon was regarding the use of the IRS to attack his political enemies. What is going on in Washington right now is no different than what Nixon was doing 40-years ago. Today, the “rule of law” is being abused by a president who thinks he can do whatever he wants while artfully schmoozing his political base. Lois Lerner needs to go to jail for Contempt of Congress. The IRS needs to be held to account; along with any others in higher office who have abused their power. Yes, the Tea Party has been hurt by the actions of the IRS, but we should all realize that this abuse of political power can be quickly turned on any of us regardless of our beliefs or political affiliation.
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