The racist NAACP has been skating on thin ice for several years now.
Hopefully this latest transgression will result in that racist group being
removed from the tax-exempt status list.




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Friday, October 29, 2004
Anti-Bush remarks could cost NAACP
By Mike Allen
The Washington Post

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002076102_naacp29.html

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service has threatened to revoke the
NAACP's tax-exempt status because the group's chairman, Julian Bond,
"condemned the administration policies of George W. Bush" during a speech
this summer, according to documents provided yesterday by the
civil-rights group.

The NAACP, the nation's oldest and largest civil-rights organization, is
incorporated under a tax-code section that prohibits participation in a
political campaign. The group long has had a strained relationship with
the Bush administration.

An IRS document dated Oct. 8 said that the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People may have violated the restriction on
political activity because it "distributed statements in opposition of
George W. Bush for the presidency" at the group's annual convention in
July.

The IRS asked for the cost of the convention, including a "listing of all
expenses," and the "names and addresses of each board member and indicate
how each voted."

Experts on the IRS said it was unusual for the agency to send such a
letter to a national organization. Jan Baran, a Republican
tax-and-election lawyer, said the IRS has sent cautionary letters to
churches but said he could not recall a similar recent investigation.

"This shows that the IRS is increasing its monitoring of potentially
improper political activities by officials of these groups," Baran said.

Bond said yesterday that he found it "Nixonian" for the administration to
send such a letter a month before the presidential election, and said he
believes it was designed to intimidate the group from conducting
get-out-the-vote activities.

"They don't say I crossed any partisan lines - they just said I
criticized the president," Bond said. "I am shocked at this effort to
silence our group just before the election."

IRS Commissioner Mark Everson said in a statement defending the
correspondence that "any suggestion that the IRS has tilted its audit
activities for political purposes is repugnant and groundless."