[EL] News Analysis: Substantial Minority of Scrutinized EOs Were Not Conservative

[Smith, Brad]

Admission against interest. Thanks for playing.

Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

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From: Trevor Potter [tpotter at capdale.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 5:35 PM
To: Smith, Brad
Cc: Michael P McDonald; law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] News Analysis: Substantial Minority of Scrutinized EOs Were Not Conservative

Brad

I thought you did not trust what the IRS says, and would therefore support an outside more in depth analysis, no matter where the chips fall?

Trevor Potter


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On Jun 6, 2013, at 4:39 PM, "Smith, Brad" <BSmith at law.capital.edu> wrote:

> Meanwhile, some people continue to deny that the IRS did what the IRS has already admitted.
>
> Bradley A. Smith
>
> Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault
>
>   Professor of Law
>
> Capital University Law School
>
> 303 E. Broad St.
>
> Columbus, OH 43215
>
> 614.236.6317
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> http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx
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> ________________________________________
> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] on behalf of Michael P McDonald [mmcdon at gmu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 1:22 PM
> To: law-election at UCI.edu
> Subject: Re: [EL] News Analysis: Substantial Minority of Scrutinized EOs Were Not Conservative
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> Correction, I read this too hastily, this analysis just shows that a good number of left groups were scrutinized. We know from previous posts that no right group was denied status, but left groups were.
>
> And to also be fair to the author, the report also notes that we need more data on all the applications.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 1:11 PM
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> Subject: [EL] News Analysis: Substantial Minority of Scrutinized EOs Were Not Conservative
>
> Martin Sullivan's analysis shows that more liberal groups were denied 501c4 tax exempt status by the IRS than conservative groups.
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> http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Articles/D2A6C735EAFA7A9085257B7B004C0D90
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> This is an important part of the puzzle that demonstrates conservative organizations were not unfairly targeted by the IRS. But, we still do not know from this analysis if the audit rate for conservative groups was higher than liberal groups. We have to look at all ~60,000 applications for that information.
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