[EL] When Capitalists Need Socialist Workers

[Mark Schmitt]

Really? Again?

Mr. Vandersloot has been the principal shareholder of a large, privately 
held, financially complex corporation for a long time. If he's never 
been audited in all that time, then it makes plenty of sense that his 
number would come up. He's also been a major Republican donor for a very 
long time.

Strassel is making a very major allegation. Why is the proper response, 
let's make Mr. Vandersloot and other /Republican/ donors, and only 
Republican donors, exempt from disclosure laws? If President Obama's 
political team in the White House actually contacted anyone in the IRS 
and directed them to audit Mr. VanderSloot, the proper response is to 
file an article of impeachment against President Obama. I'd support the 
impeachment of a president who did that, just as five or six Republicans 
supported the impeachment of Nixon on a similar charge.

You say there is no one to whom Mr. VanderSloot can appeal, but of 
course there is. There's a fellow named Darryl Issa, who has full 
subpoena power and no hesitation to use it. There's the inspector 
general of the IRS. Mr. Issa seems to have gotten bored of Solyndra and 
Fast and Furious, which didn't amount to anything, so lets turn him 
loose on VanderSlootGate.



On 7/20/2012 9:39 AM, Steve Hoersting wrote:
> Kim Strassel's latest:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577537233908744496.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
>
> And it's applicability to election law:
>
> http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/266623
>
> Kim asks this question at the end: "As for Mr. VanderSloot, to what 
> authority should he appeal if he believes this to be politically 
> motivated---given the Justice Department on down is also controlled by 
> the man who targeted him?"
>
> The answer, for Mr. VanderSloot, is, realistically and unfortunately, 
> "to no authority; none."
>
> But for those businessmen who are yet safely anonymous, and understand 
> speaking in the political process is their only remedy against 
> economic deprivations from an unchecked IPAB or Consumer Financial 
> Protection Bureau sure to come, the authority to which they should 
> appeal is the district court.
>
> Businessmen who don't want to be the "next" Frank VanderSloot should 
> file in district court as John Does to seek the /Socialist Workers/ 
> exemption to compelled disclosure of their partial funding of 
> independent political speech.
>
> -- 
> Stephen M. Hoersting
>
>
>
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