Allegations Of Impropriety Inside Dallas IRS Office
April
10, 2014 6:55 PM
Bud
Gillett
Bud
is the most veteran reporter at CBS 11 News with 42 years in m...
(CBSDFW.COM)
- The
Dallas office of the Internal Revenue Service has come under federal
scrutiny, but not because of anything to do with taxpayers’ money
.
Instead, it’s over allegations of what employees were wearing or
displaying in an office of the Federal Building.
.
Instead, it’s over allegations of what employees were wearing or
displaying in an office of the Federal Building.
Early
in his 2012 re-election bid there was concern that President Obama’s
campaign needed all the help it
could get; now a federal probe has concluded some help from inside a
Dallas IRS office might not have been legal.
it
could get; now a federal probe has concluded some help from inside a
Dallas IRS office might not have been legal.
According
to this Office of Special Counsel document, employees at the Dallas
IRS Taxpayer Assistance Office were seen wearing pro-Obama campaign
paraphernalia: stickers, buttons, and T-shirts, even putting campaign
screen-savers on work computers.
.
“No,
it’s news to me and frankly it’s very disconcerting,” the
Dallas County Republican Party Chair says. Wade Emert believes
federal workers need to keep their politics at home.
“The
largest concern is whether or not these employees are using their
office to enforce their own personal political ideology. That’s
what we saw happen in D.C. with the IRS targeting certain groups.
To the extent these employees are supporters of President Obama,
that’s fine, but what they do at work is separate from their
personal political life. And it should be separate, and we get
into trouble when it’s not.”
Emert
added, “So, if you’re a President Obama supporter, that’s
great, you just can’t bring it into the federal office with you,
especially during election time.”
My
comments: How far will Federal actions go with Holder as Attorney
General? Not far. The IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups before the
2012 Election demonstrate that the IRS is being used by Obama and
Holder to achieve their political objectives, in that case getting
Obama reelected. If the Fox guards the hen house he can have as many
hens as he wishes.
No comments:
Post a Comment