learned today. anyone think he was there for coffee, tea and crumpets? no? easter egg rolls. sean: that s right. bill, tell your story. i m founder of the west jersey tea party. in august of 2010 we filed forju 501(c)(4) status, and it wasn t until january of 2012 that we received our letter. like many people in thisve audience we had the same intrusive questions being asked of us, such as the communications between our members and members of congress, representatives at the statehouse, as well as the qualifications of the people that we brought in, whether or not they could speak on the topic that we had chosen for them to speak on. and it was just an intrusive development, really intimidating. in fact, we saw membership losses occur right after we put the vote to all of our members, do you want to cooperate with
it s actually 157 times we learned today. anyone think he was there for coffee, tea and crumpets? no? easter egg rolls. sean: that s right. bill, tell your story. i m founder of the west jersey tea party. in august of 2010 we filed forju 501(c)(4) status, and it wasn t until january of 2012 that we received our letter. like many people in thisve audience we had the same intrusive questions being asked of us, such as the communications between our members and members of congress, representatives at the statehouse, as well as the qualifications of the people that we brought in, whether or not they could speak on the topic that we had chosen for them to speak on. and it was just an intrusive development, really intimidating. in fact, we saw membership losses occur right after we put the vote to all of our members, do you want to cooperate with
value in it. we ll play that in a little bit. here is j. russell george who did the inspector general s report that started the whole ball of wax rolling. here he is. an estimated $49 million for 225 conferences during the three-year period of our review. the conference in california was held at the marriott hilton and sheraton hotels in anaheim in august of 2010 at a reported cost of $4.1 million. the small business self-employed division of the irs conducted this conference for an estimated 2600 executives and managers. as required at the time, the conference was approved by the two deputy commissioners of the irs. we could not validate the accuracy of the $4.1 million conference costs because the irs did not have effective controls to track and report those costs. $3.2 million of the
go on this one. martha: i am. $4 million for one conference held in anaheim, california, in august of 2010. all right, 2600 people attended. they were given baseball tickets. as you said, martha, some stayed in the presidential suites which are up to $3500 a night. the irs did not negotiate the hotel room rates to bring them down. they didn t do that. and there were 15 outside speakers who were paid a total of $135,000, including one speaker who lectured on the leadership through art, for which that person received $17,000. martha: unbelievable. one last point on the videos. we saw the line dancing. there was another one where they did a takeoff of the star trek series. martha: that was cute. $50,000 to produce those two videos. martha: particularly well maid for $50,000 i might add. they don t seem to be shopping around their video production capabilities either. i think the bottom line here is, this lavish spending on conferences is
z street is a purely educationalg organization, all we did is educate people. we didn t spend money or send money anywhere for anything to anyone. so it s absurd. but beyond that, you know, are they looking at every organization where terrorism happens? because at this point, i am not aware of any country on the planet where terrorism doesn t happen. shannon: your next step, i understand, is in july in federal court, what will happen? what do you hope will happen? it s our first court hearing, that we filed in august of 2010. it s a hearing on the government s motion to dismiss our complaint. so i am very hopeful that we will be able to defeat their motion to dismiss our complaint and finally move forward. all we are looking for with our lawsuit is information about how they the irs determined which organizations they are going to