IRS audits NEA per GOP lawfirm request

[theivoryqueen]

Looks like those teachers are in for a bumpy ride...

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1103/25nea.html

< The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 11/25/03 >

IRS launches audit of teachers union
Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- The IRS is auditing the nation's largest teachers union, scrutinizing an organization that works energetically to elect candidates but files tax returns reporting zero political expenditures from member dues.

The National Education Association promised Monday to cooperate, but its president, Reg Weaver, said the union "will not be silenced" by the audit or the conservative law firm that requested it.

[Mika]

1. Four words..

It is a war.

[Mentalist]

2. They could be in trouble

from the article...

Weaver, the NEA president, said his organization will "vigorously defend our constitutional right to speak to our members about the role of politics in public education."

Union members "have a right to be involved in politics," he said. "Our organization will not back down in the face of those who want to bully us out of our rights as Americans."


Yet I remember past stories about this and the NEA has claimed ZERO dollars spent on political activities on their filings. ZERO!

There is no doubt that the NEA is involved in political activity and that they pay large sums of money toward political activity. Which they have a right to do and should do. But to claim that they have not spent a single penny on such is a blatant lie.

If they are in violation of tax laws they should be smacked and smacked hard.

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. The Labor wing <<chao>>

of the Bush Crime Family investigated a $252.00 bookeeping error concerning a PAC from a local. Meanwhile Kenny Lay still enjoys his ill gotten gains, and other CEOs line up to buy the Gulfstream G450 jet, which will fly eight passengers


Price tag: $33 million.

Ya...... lets smack that Union.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Six and a half words:

It's time to audit conservative churches.

[LincolnMcGrath]

4. And right wing think tanks

And companies, Chambers of Commerce

[John_Shadows_1]

5. That's right, crack down on the artists...

... they might be terrorists.