Allegations Of Impropriety Inside Dallas IRS Office

Allegations Of Impropriety Inside Dallas IRS Office

April 10, 2014 6:55 PM

Bud Gillett

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(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.

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.

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.