[EL] IRS PR

[John White]

Is anyone else troubled by the compounding of the original wrongful conduct by scripting a disclosure to undercut the soon-to-be-released IG report coupled with the manipulation of the bar's tax section?  This strikes me not merely as a matter of "bad PR."

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 9:04 AM
To: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] IRS PR

IRS PR: Even Worse Than I Thought<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50582>
Posted on May 17, 2013 9:03 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50582> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Following up on this post<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50578>, it turns out that not only was Lerner going in prepared to bring up the tea party targeting; the question was planted too.  Watch<http://rare.us/story/irs-staged-qa-that-revealed-tea-party-targeting/>.
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