is totally inconsistent with the way the law is written. the law is clear, if you want to be involved as a 501 c4, you re exclusively involved in social welfare activities. no politics. why has this is an old regulation. it s come to matter more since the citizens united case, because what they said was that corporations including non-profits could dump millions of dollars into campaigns. so if they allowed some of this political activity, they could dump millions of dollars. one of the nice things having my job, you may resent it, i can t give a political contribution of five bucks. i can t give a nickel. it keeps me simple. people say can you help? i say no, i can t. i don t want people think i ve given money. tax loss shuen written that way. the law says if you look up your statute, the law stays it you want to be a 5001 c4, organization duck only only exclusively engage in social
recent decision from may in our court of appeals, when there are consecutive sentences sought or to be imposed, the court must comply with 2929.14c4 and i have to make specific findings relevant to those factors. and, since there was not a trial at a trial, i would have heard all the facts and could have applied them for sentencing. but here there was a plea, there was no psi, so i understand why the state presented some of the information. it was toned down greatly, as far as i could understand the original potential testimony at trial. so while i respect the defense position, at the same time, in order to determine whether i wish to impose the recommended sentence, i have to make those findings and i have to have a basis for them. so it has been relevant in that
all easier to manage on the share everything plan for small business. connecting more so you can do more. that s powerful. verizon. get the blackberry q10 for $199.99. we are back with rick sanitorium. the irs scandal is huge and they are targeting conservative and pro-life and proisrael groups. you didn t seek a tax exempt status for yours? the lawyer behind this breaking scandal was cleta mitchell. and she was the lawyer for patriot voices. we went to her and said we need to set up a c4. she said the irs is targeting these groups and they will run you through the wringer and her advice was take a step back and
one happened to be a teddy bear. i sent one.i se we passed out constitutions. i sent that.ll i sent a box this big, cost wels over $200 to send it. i did not send them names of donors sean: evenho thoughse they ad for it? no, i didn t, because it didn t apply for a c4. i still didn t hear. four months later i contacted congressman scott mcclintock. sean: from california. yeah, believe it or not. he sent a scathing letter to the irs, had an impassioned speech on the floor of the house of representatives on behalf of norcal.tter three weeks later i got a phone call from them and they gave usy our letter. sean: nobody should have to goave through that. here s the crazy thing. people have said, jenny, i can t donate anymore, come your to your meetings anymore, because i m afraid the irs will come after me. that s tyranny. sean: i ve always told my accountant, because i m in thehe
every one of them said, no, we don t want to cooperate. our membership began to fall oft precipitously after that. they all felt they would be audited. their association with us, as a tea party, was going to cause f auditsor for them. sean: anastasia, you have a different story. yes. a in 2009, we opened up a bank account. we were getting checks and donations. through 2010 i started gettingng letters from the irs, and got really scared. i contacted an attorney, who walked us through the process, got us c4. established as a c4. in our case we got established before this all started. but the problem is every threesi months i get these letters from the irs saying i m not in compliance, which means i have to use up a day on the phone with the wi irs, you never get n email, you never get the same a person, it s a 1-800 number, and there s no you send the same letter off to a p.o. box and