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LIBERTY TWP.

Its been 11 months since the IRS admitted they had unfairly targeted particular politically active and conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt nonprofit status, and four years since Liberty Twp. Tea Party applied for that status.

On Monday, members of the tea party group received an update on its lawsuit that prompted scandal within the IRS. The IRS is still being scrutinized for targeting groups applying for 501c3 and 501c4 tax-exempt status as committee hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., are still ongoing.

The American Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit conservative legal organization that operates on donations, filed suit last year against the IRS on behalf of the Liberty Twp. Tea Party and 40 other conservative clients in 22 states.

In an exclusive interview with the Journal-News, Jordan Sekulow, ACLJ executive director, said the Liberty Twp. Tea Party is one of 11 tea party groups that have yet to get an answer on the status of its 501c3 application.

Effectively, the IRS stalled these applicants out, he said. A lot of these groups we represent, not all of them, this effectively shut them down. Some reorganized later on because they realized what happened.

The IRS admitted last year that specific groups, based on key words in their nonprofit request applications, were targeted for closer scrutiny. Most of the groups were right-leaning groups, such as ones with tea party or patriot in their names. The issues started in the Cincinnati office, but Sekulow said it was a system-wide problem that went all the way to the top, and it was unfair to blame people in Cincinnati for when it was Washington bureaucrats who was making it impossible for the people (in the Cincinnati and similar offices) to get the job done.

The Journal-News reached out to the IRS for comment, but IRS spokeswoman Jennifer Jenkins declined to comment, saying that agency rules prevent employees from discussing confidential matters of a persons or organizations tax status.

The Liberty Twp. Tea Party was founded in summer 2009 and applied for the 501c3 tax-exempt status in May 2010. Liberty Twp. Tea Party member Susan McLaughlin said its been frustrating to have to wait.

The inability of the IRS to make a timely decision, their intrusive illegal politically motivated questioning that went what was beyond reasonable proves to us that our bureaucracies are bloated and our representatives have failed miserably in controlling the agencies they have created, she said. Our right to free speech and assembly has been abridged.

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Liberty Twp. Tea Party one of 11 without yes or no on tax-exempt status

SACRAMENTO-

The Tea Party didnt want our state leaders to forget they havent gone anywhere on Tax Day.

We have been hearing in the news that the Tea Partys gone, the tea parties irrelevant, we arent really doing anything. Oh yes, we are, Northern California Tea Party coodinator Ginny Rapini said.

Tea Partiers say the aredemanding stateand federal leaders to do their jobs, or they will find ways to remove them from office.

We dont do many of the big rallies anymore because we are busy working under the radar, getting conservative people in local office, Rapini said.

Tuesday,hundreds marched in the 6th-annual Tax Day Rally, many in fear of the direction the State of California and federal government is moving.

We are wasting our money on taxes I dont agree with, protesterBecky Clover said.

The demonstration was also designed to rally the conservatives into becoming more politically active in California. Organizers want aconservative agenda to have a chance of beating out aliberal one.

We are getting Obamacare forced upon us, we are getting more taxes imposed upon us, we are getting high speed rail imposed upon us, protestor Tim Wiederhold said. There are so many other projects that are more important than what our state senate is spending on.

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Tea Party Rallies at California State Capitol

Sorry, Nevada rancher guy, youre no Obamacare.

The story of Cliven Bundy, the rancher who stood up to the Bureau of Land Management after it rounded up his cattle over years of unpaid grazing fees, is getting lots of attention. Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have interviewed him on their shows. Fox Newss The Five debated his actions. The Drudge Report is giving prominent play to all the latest Bundy coverage.

Its got all the elements of a made-for-cable-TV fight especially the element of a powerful federal government overplaying its hand, and freedom-living citizens standing up in protest.

But is Bundy really the guy the right wants as its new hero? And is his fight against big government going to turn national, or is it just an interesting, high-traffic story?

(Also on POLITICO: Reid: Ranch standoff 'not over')

So far, all signs suggest that national Republicans and tea party officials arent about to jump on the Bundy bandwagon. After all, if they want to rally voters against big government, they already have Obamacare for that.

Compare and contrast: With Obamacare, Republicans and tea party groups can talk about people being forced out of health coverage that they liked, higher premiums to meet the laws new coverage standards, constant changes in the rules by the Obama administration and, of course, the hated individual mandate.

With the ranch standoff, they can talk about how a powerful federal agency took a guys cows in an operation they blandly called a cattle gather instead of solving the problem, say, any other way.

(Also on POLITICO: Bundy to sheriffs: 'Disarm' the BLM)

But they also have to talk about a guy who didnt pay his grazing fees for more than 20 years, in a state where the federal government owns 86 percent of the land, and where other ranchers just go ahead and pay the fees.

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Tea party to rancher: Happy trails

April 15, 2014

On Tuesday, the Jefferson Area Tea Party hit a milestone. Tax Day 2014 marked the fifth anniversary for the organization that supports limited government and fiscal responsibility.

The group gathered on the steps of the Albemarle County office building in the evening for another rally.

Five years ago to the day, the group held its first rally, filling the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in downtown Charlottesville.

"It was just people who were angry and frustrated and didn't know what to do and needed a way and a venue to speak out," said JATP president Mike Basile.

Though much smaller, Tuesday's rally carried the same message -- residents are "taxed enough already."

The organization criticized the recent tax rate increase in Albemarle County and Charlottesville's cigarette tax hike.

"Start doing your job, get your hands off my wallet. I'm not your ATM," radio host and former Charlottesville City Council member Rob Schilling said of local and state leaders.

Members also took some time Tuesday to reflect on the last half decade.

Former JATP president Carole Thorpe said it was also a day for members to pat themselves on the back.

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Jefferson Area Tea Party Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

HELENA Speakers at a Big Sky Tea Party Association rally Tuesday decried what they called excessive government spending and taxation and accused the state political practices commissioner of bias.

As it has done in recent years, the group gathered on April 15, the day when federal and state income taxes are due. Several speakers blasted the Internal Revenue Service for its scrutiny of the tea party and other conservative groups.

About 45 people attended the event, some carrying signs that said Intentional Rip-Off Service, Had enough of this train wreck? Attention, Washington. You have run out of our money and Dont drone on me. One sign aimed at Political Practices Commissioner Jonathan Motl said, Motl Recuse yourself.

The tea party does not hate government, Jay Anderson of Helena said. I know that may be a popular perception in the media, but its not the fact.

Anderson said Americans should scrutinize government spending, just as business owners and employees do with businesses.

Former state Rep. Derek Skees, R-Whitefish, now running for the Public Service Commission, said: Is the tea party dead? The left would love for that to be a reality, and so would many members of our press.

He said the tea party role is to be a voice for the middle class.

The tea party is alive and well, he said. The tea party is winning victories in Montana and in America, and you guys are winning it by holding people accountable to what they say theyre going to do.

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John Perkins, a sophomore at Carroll College who chairs the College Republicans, expressed concern over the electronic information about Americans being collected by the National Security Agency and others.

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Helena tea party rally decries excessive taxes, spending