[EL] "Den of Liberals"
Mark Schmitt
schmitt.mark at gmail.com
Tue May 28 08:29:23 PDT 2013
"The Administration and the Senate Majority Leader may have leaked - and
certainly implied they had knowledge of - tax info on certain of its
political enemies, including the Kochs and Governor Romney."
For the record, Austan Goolsbee made a reference to the corporate status
of Koch Industries, which is public information, saying that he thought
it was an S Corporation or an LLC, which don't pay corporate taxes by
definition. He was mistaken. And Harry Reid, while he may have been
lying or wrong about Romney, was quite explicit that his source was a
friend who was a former Bain partner, not the IRS.
Mark Schmitt
Senior Fellow, The Roosevelt Institute
202/246-2350
gchat or Skype: schmitt.mark
twitter: mschmitt9
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Smith, Brad <BSmith at law.capital.edu>
wrote:
>It does seem a bit absurd to think that this is simply a problem of a
>bunch of left wing employees at the IRS office in Cincinnati.
>
>Similarly, it's a mistake to think that Lois Lerner is some evil left
>villain mastermind. I don't know Lois well - during the 15 or so months
>we worked together at the FEC I don't recall any serious conversations
>unrelated to work, but she didn't strike me as particularly partisan.
>
>Rather, this is a much bigger and more important issue than a few rogue
>civil servants. The President of the United States consistently singled
>out tea party and conservative groups as dangerous and essentially
>un-American, a couple of them by name. Prominent Democratic Party
>Senators, such as Levin, Whitehouse, and Durbin, put political pressure
>on the IRS to be more aggressive in investigating the president's
>enemies (or, perhaps better put, organizations that just happened to be
>critical of the president and the liberal agenda). The Administration
>and the Senate Majority Leader may have leaked - and certainly implied
>they had knowledge of - tax info on certain of its political enemies,
>including the Kochs and Governor Romney.
>
>The IRS simply took its political cues and began sharpening itself on
>these groups. We know that just before this policy was launched, the
>head of the Union that represents IRS employees also visited the White
>House. And we know that eventually the IRS - which probably does, as
>Mark notes, include more Democrats than Republicans - then began to
>screen the applications of the President's enemies. And then lied about
>it to Congress.
>
>There is a tremendous lack of wisdom in thinking that you can have the
>government actively regulate political speech and not have it abused.
>That the IRS can do so is even more naive.
>
>I'm in the UK, where the press is noting, FWIW, that the IRS has far
>more power than Britain's tax collection agencies.
>
>Bradley A. Smith
>
>Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault
>
> Professor of Law
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
>________________________________________
>From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
>[law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] on behalf of Mark
>Schmitt [schmitt.mark at gmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 6:59 PM
>To: law-election at UCI.edu
>Subject: Re: [EL] "Den of Liberals"
>
>Before everyone gets too excited about this, as I pointed out to Dave
>Weigel, these numbers don't prove much of anything. The total number of
>IRS employees in the Cincinnati area who made any federally reportable
>political contribution at any time since 2007 is nine. In a very large
>office. (There may be others who reported "US Govt" or "Treasury" as
>their employer, or who live in Kentucky, but I just recreated Tim
>Carney's CRP search.)
>
>And the 40-27 Dem-Republican split among unionized federal employees
>that Dave cites is only a tiny bit more Democratic than the national
>party i.d. split at the time of that poll -- 36D-27R in November, 2011.
>IRS looks a lot like America to me -- not very interested in politics,
>and not very many Republicans.
>
>
>------ Original Message ------
>From: "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>>
>To: "law-election at UCI.edu"
><law-election at uci.edu<mailto:law-election at uci.edu>>
>Sent: 5/19/2013 3:21:25 PM
>Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/19/13
>“A Den of Liberals: The IRS, like most government agencies, leans left.
>It’s just a fact of life”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50649>
>Posted on May 19, 2013 12:19 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50649> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Weigel<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/05/steven_miller_house_testimony_the_irs_has_many_more_liberals_than_conservatives.html>:
>
>In theory, the civil-servant structure should make an organization less
>prone to an eruption of bias or of hive-mind behavior. But that’s not
>how it works. Liberals are more likely to enter the civil service, and
>to stick to it, than conservatives are. And why not? Conservatives want
>to shrink the size of government; Republicans have negotiated deals
>federally, and in the states, that slashed or froze the size of the
>bureaucracies. Ron Swanson
>aside<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Swanson>, the public sector is
>no place for a libertarian.
>
>Every single number proves this. Tim Carney has
>collected<http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-the-irs-is-deeply-political-and-very-democratic/article/2529758>
>the campaign finance figures for IRS employees nationally and in the
>Cincinnati office. In the past three election cycles, IRS workers
>donated $247,000 to Democrats and $145,000 to Republicans. In Ohio, the
>number was skewed even further—75 percent to Democrats. According to a
>2011 Gallup poll, around 40
>percent<http://www.gallup.com/poll/146786/democrats-lead-ranks-union-state-workers.aspx>
>of unionized federal employees identified as Democrats; only 27 percent
>identified as Republicans. State and local government employees are far
>more likely to be Democrats than Republicans.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“IRS Scandal, Day 10″<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50647>
>Posted on May 19, 2013 12:17 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50647> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>TaxProf has an extensive collection of links. Here is the most recent
>set<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/the-irs-.html> of
>coverage (and this SNL
>skit<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/snl-on-.html>).
>Earlier coverage:
>
> * IRS Admits to Targeting Conservative Groups in 2012
>Election<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/irs-admits.html>
>(May 10, 2013)
> * WaPo and WSJ Agree: IRS Targeting of Conservatives Is
>Appalling<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/wsj-irs.html>
>(May 11, 2013)
> * Schmalbeck on the IRS ‘Targeting’ of Conservative
>Groups<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/schmalbeck.html>
>(May 12, 2013)
> * The Deepening IRS
>Scandal<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/the-deepening.html>
>(May 13, 2013)
> * The IRS Scandal, Day
>5<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/the-irs-scandal.html>
>(May 14, 2013)
> * Jon Stewart and Vic Fleischer on the IRS
>Scandal<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/jon-stewart.html>
>(May 14, 2013)
> * Inspector General: Ineffective IRS Management Allowed Agents to
>Target Conservative
>Groups<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/inspector-general-.html>
>(May 14, 2013)
> * The IRS Scandal, Day
>6<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/the-irs.html> (May
>15, 2013)
> * Ellen Aprill, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Questions
>About the IRS and About the
>Report<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/aprill.html>
>(May 15, 2013)
> * Phillip Hackney, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Be on the
>Lookout for False Partisan
>Witchunts<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/hackney-.html>
>(May 15, 2013)
> * The IRS Scandal, Day
>7<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/the-.html> (May 16,
>2013)
> * The IRS Scandal, Day
>8<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/irs-sc.html> (May 17,
>2013)
> * The IRS Scandal, Day
>9<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/the-irs-1.html> (May
>18, 2013)
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50644>
>Posted on May 19, 2013 12:06 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50644> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>WSJ
>reports.<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324767004578488833834357540.html>
>
>[Share]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D50644&title=%E2%80%9CHigher-Ups%20Knew%20of%20IRS%20Case%E2%80%9D&description=>
>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“How the IRS Spun Out of Control”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50642>
>Posted on May 19, 2013 12:05 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50642> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>LA Times deep
>dive<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-irs-conservatives-20130519,0,2809001,print.story>.
>
>[Share]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D50642&title=%E2%80%9CHow%20the%20IRS%20Spun%20Out%20of%20Control%E2%80%9D&description=>
>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“Confusion and Staff Troubles Rife at I.R.S. Office in
>Ohio”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50638>
>Posted on May 19, 2013 12:03 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50638> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Extensive<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/us/politics/at-irs-unprepared-office-seemed-unclear-about-the-rules.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>
>front-page NYT report.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“IRS Scandal is About Donors, Not
>Tax”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50635>
>Posted on May 19, 2013 12:01 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50635> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Roger Colinvaux has written this CNN
>oped<http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/opinion/colinvaux-irs-taxes/index.html>.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“Shareholders press companies to disclose more about political
>spending”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50632>
>Posted on May 19, 2013 11:58 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50632> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>WaPo
>reports.<http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/shareholders-press-companies-to-disclose-more-about-political-spending/2013/05/17/ed1392e4-bf34-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html>
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> |
>Comments Off
>“Dan Morain: Donors’ millions kept
>undercover”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50630>
>Posted on May 19, 2013 11:57 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50630> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>New SacBee
>column.<http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/19/5429846/donors-millions-kept-undercover.html>
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>CCP Comments to House Ways & Means on IRS
>Scandal<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50627>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 5:16 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50627> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Here<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2013-05-17_Keating-WM-Testimony_US-House_IRS-Targeting-Conservative-Groups.pdf>.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>Disclosure of 501c4 Files to Pro Publica Was
>“Inadvertent”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50624>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 5:11 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50624> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>See the Update at the bottom of this Pro Publica
>story<http://www.propublica.org/article/irs-office-that-targeted-tea-party-also-disclosed-confidential-docs>.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“IRS Scandal Rooted in Money, Power and
>Washington”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50622>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 5:09 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50622> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Bloomberg
>View<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/irs-scandal-rooted-in-money-power-and-washington.html>:
>
>Until Congress passes the Disclose Act, which would end the practice of
>anonymous political spending, the IRS will continue to oversee groups
>that spend millions to influence the political process. What’s more,
>well-financed, powerful groups with deep political connections and
>access to first-rate legal advice will continue to whiz through the IRS
>express lane while genuine citizen organizations, Tea-Party-inspired
>and otherwise, will endure long waits to have their applications
>approved. The inspector general found one hapless applicant waiting
>1,138 days for approval. We don’t know the victim’s name. We’re pretty
>sure it wasn’t “Rove.”
>
>I make the pitch for DISCLOSE II to solve the broader IRS problem
>here.<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/the_irs_tea_party_scandal_the_lesson_is_better_campaign_finance_disclosure.html>
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So
>Dysfunctional”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50619>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 2:28 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50619> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Must-read<http://www.propublica.org/article/how-irs-nonprofit-division-got-so-dysfunctional>
>Pro Publica deep dive.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“How to Stop the Next IRS Scandal”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50616>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 1:43 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50616> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Jonathan
>Bernstein<http://prospect.org/article/how-prevent-another-irs-scandal>
>wants unlimited disclosed contributions to candidates.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>Read About How Lerner Planted Question with Lawyer at ABA Tax
>Meeting<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50612>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 1:26 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50612> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Here<http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/irs-official-lois-lerner-called-lawyer-to-plant>.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“Official Says Treasury Dept. Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in
>2012″<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50609>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 12:10 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50609> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>NYT
><http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/us/politics/irs-scandal-congressional-hearings.html?hp&_r=0>
>on today’s hearing.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“House panel opens hearing on IRS targeting of conservative
>groups”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50605>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 12:07 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50605> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>WaPo
>reports<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-panel-opens-hearing-on-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups/2013/05/17/f1d7d352-beea-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html?hpid=z2>.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“IRS Speaks Out: We Messed Up, But We Would’ve Scrutinized Tea Partiers
>Anyway”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50602>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 11:41 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50602> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Andy Kroll
>reports<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/irs-response-tea-party-debacle-congress>
>for Mother Jones.
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>Two from Bloomberg on IRS<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50599>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 11:25 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50599> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>IRS Probe Sheds Light on Nonprofit Election-Year
>Surge<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-17/irs-probe-sheds-light-on-nonprofit-election-year-surge.html?alcmpid=Politics>
>
>Exiting IRS Chief Denies Targeting as Republicans
>Pounce<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-17/camp-says-irs-shows-administration-s-culture-of-cover-ups.html?alcmpid=Politics>
>
>
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
>and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off
>“New IRS List Harms Tax-Exempt
>Groups”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50596>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 11:23 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50596> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>CCP
>release.<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2013/05/17/ccp-urges-irs-to-act-more-carefully/>
>
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>Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> |
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>“Election Finance Reform: Viable Proposals vs. Long-Term
>Goals”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50593>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 11:21 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50593> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Raph Graybill
>blogs<http://isps.yale.edu/news/blog/2013/05/election-finance-reform-viable-proposals-vs-long-term-goals#.UZZ09IL3hBF>.
>
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>“IRS Rationale for Tea Party Scandal Is Debunked by
>Data”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50590>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 11:17 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50590> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>Important
>item<http://philanthropy.com/article/IRS-Rationale-for-Tea-Party/139277/>
>in the Chronicle of Philanthropy (via Jonathan
>Adler)<http://www.volokh.com/2013/05/17/irs-disclosure-was-planted/>.
>
>Whether or not the total number of c4 applications were going up, c4
>political spending was exploding, beginning with WRTL and continuing
>into Citizens United. See my charts here <http://t.co/rUnyRpng6a> from
>last year’s presentation at Stanford PACs, based upon data from the
>Center for Responsive Politics.
>
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>“At Cincinnati IRS office, surprise over claims of partisan
>villainy”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50588>
>Posted on May 17, 2013 11:15 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50588> by
>Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>WaPo went to
>talk<http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/at-cincinnati-irs-office-surprise-over-claims-of-partisan-villainy/2013/05/17/f693c60e-bd81-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html?hpid=z1>
>to the Cincinnati office workers.
>
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