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The e-mails I have been getting from Jenny Beth Martin, Chairman of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, have me thinking about Lois Lerner and Teapartygate. I went back and took another look at a report prepared by the staff of Darrell Issas Committee on Oversight and Government. The report is titled Lois Lerners Involvement in the IRS Targeting of Tax-Exempt Organizations. It is well worth reading the whole report and I recommend it. I still dont think it adds up to some sort of crusade against conservatives, but thats just me. You can read it yourself. It seems that Lerner was strongly against money in politics and sensitive to the criticism that IRS was letting 501(c)(4) organizations get away with too much political activity. And along comes the Tea Party, which Lerner sees as very dangerous.
One GD thing after another and now we are on Day 542 of the IRS Scandal, by TaxProf count, with no end in sight. Here is the question that is troubling me right now thanks to the e-mails I have been getting from Jenny Beth Martin. If there is a pretty compelling case that Tea Party Patriots Inc was intended from day 1 to be a political organization, rather than a social welfare organization, would that make any difference in how we view Lois Lerner?
The Jenny Beth Email
Jenny Beth and I have a strong, though one-sided e-mail relationship. There is quite a bit from her in my in-box. On Saturday I heard from Jenny about an urgent and agonizing decision that comes from not having enough moneyto fund all our grassroots efforts in all the critical Senate elections. Here is the part that I found kind of interesting:
I didnt get involved in the Tea Party movement for fun. Like you, I got involved to stop Barack Obama and to help save America. Now Im being told by my staff that were probably going to have to let some leftist like Bruce Braley in Iowa or Kay Hagan in North Carolina win because we cant afford to fight back in every important state.
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, the PAC, which by definition, can make lots of political expenditures is a relative newcomer to the movement. This is the clearest statement Ive noted so far indicating that there is something of a seamless relationship between the PAC and the 501(c)(4) organization Tea Party Patriots Inc, which, according to its Form 990 for the year ended May 31, 2013,paid Jenny Beth Martin $272,010 to be its President. Apparently she still has that job. On September 1 I got an e-mail from Jenny Beth Martin in her capacity as Co-founder and National Coordinator of TPP Inc (the social welfare organization) that indicated:
Your gift today will be sent immediately to the front lines to enable our grassroots volunteers and staffers to contact these voters and move them to the polls to fire Harry Reid. If we succeed this year, we will shock the political world. And most importantly, we will halt the Obama agenda for the next two years.
Some Numbers
TPP Inc raised just over $20 million in the year ended May 31, 2013. It spent all of that plus just over $350,000 of the surplus raised in the previous fiscal year. Less than $500,000 of that went out in the form of grants to the grass roots organizations. The largest grant $100,000 went to the Georgia Integrity Project, a massive statewide precinct organization project. Quite a bit went for fundraising over eight million.
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Democratic Party chair, Tea Party Patriots stand their ground over commercial
Posted YESTERDAY, 6:42 PM Updated YESTERDAY, 6:42 PM
SAN ANTONIO - A prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance are usually how tea party gatherings begin, said George Rodriguez, the South Texas coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots.
But at a protest on the sidewalk outside KWEX-TV, Rodriguez said it was a way to show theyre not terrorists.
He said he and his membership disagree with a Spanish-language spot only airing on local Channel 41 that says armed militia groups on the border are terrorists aligned with the tea party.
Rodriguez said he doesnt blame Bexar County Democrats as a whole for buying the commercial time.
Its one of their leaders that has chosen the opportunity to smear us, Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez was referring to Manuel Medina, chair of the Bexar County Democratic Party, who said, They have a right to be upset but the truth of the matter is they dont own the truth.
At a rally outside party headquarters on Interstate 10, Medina referred to the images in the commercial of militia members in military garb, weapons in hand.
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Several Tea Party icons, including Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Sarah Palin, and former Representative Allen West (R-FL), are urging Tea Party activists around the country to help Republicans take back the majority in the U.S. Senate in next weeks 2014 mid-term elections through a low budget but heart-felt social media campaign of personalized YouTube videos.
Dollar for dollar, these short YouTube pitches may end up being the most cost-effective assistance the Republican Party receives in the last week of the campaign. Targeted at the passionate Tea Party conservatives who powered the huge wave in the 2010 mid-terms that saw the Republicans take back a majority in the House of Representatives, the videos attempt to make the case that, despite four years of Republican establishment backsliding on the promises of the 2010 election, the future of the country depends on the outcome of the 2014 election.
These pitches, coming from Tea Party-aligned political leaders who enjoy high levels of trust with Tea Party activists around the country, are a timely boost for the Republican Party. Tea Party activists are not particularly enthused about the choices in the 2014 general election, whose marquis contest in the Kentucky U.S. Senate race will turn on whether Tea Party Republicans show up and vote for McConnell, nose-holding or not, as Sam Youngman at the Lexington Herald Leader reported.
With the losses of Tea Party-endorsed candidates in Republican primaries in Kentucky, Mississippi, Kansas, and Tennessee, Tea Party activists have no one left to cheer for. As a result, most consider this a hold your nose election where they are forced to vote for the least bad option, which in most cases is the moderate Republican, as opposed to the far left Democrat (in Kansas, the far left Democrat is listed on the ballot as an Independent).
The Tea Party icons in these videos are reminding the true believers in limited government that sometimes the best course of action is to hold your nose and vote for the least bad option, especially if one result of that vote will be the deposing of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) as the majority leader of the U.S. Senate.
The low budget YouTube videos have an equally low budget distribution mechanism. Sources tell Breitbart News that several groups including Americans for Limited Government, Tea Party Patriots, and For America, a conservative 501 c 4 whose Facebook page has more than six million likes will be sending links out to these videos in their regular email messages.
Representative Louie Gohmerts video begins with the assertion that this is a country in trouble. Every Tea Party activist, he urges, should vote as if your country depends on it.
With less than a week until election day, these Tea Party icons are hoping that the anticipated small margin needed for victory by Republican candidates in several key swing states may come from Tea Party activists energized by their YouTube video pitches.
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