{"id":14386,"date":"2014-10-27T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=14386"},"modified":"2014-10-27T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:23:53","slug":"judge-ruling-on-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2014\/10\/27\/judge-ruling-on-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Ruling on IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The founder of the state’s Tea Party Coalition says the Internal Revenue Service should be “shut down” after a judge acknowledged in an opinion that agents targeted conservative groups based on their political beliefs.”<\/p>\n

“”It’s political warfare for people to use their political power to go after others because of their points of view,” said Jane Aitken of the New Hampshire Tea Party Coalition. “I think it’s criminal, and they should be shut down for it. It’s something out of a police state or communist China or Cuba. Not America.””<\/em>
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\nCorrected quote: “It’s political warfare for government to use their power…”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“While we decry the practice of using the IRS to target anyone, we have not been subject to this scrutiny because we as the original movement do not collect\/distribute or deal with money,” said Aitken. “Many of the groups in question are GOP PACs founded by GOP consultants calling themselves ‘tea parties.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more at the Union Leader: Tea Party groups ‘stunned’ by court’s decision on IRS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The founder of the state’s Tea Party Coalition says the Internal Revenue Service should be “shut down” after a judge acknowledged in an opinion that agents targeted conservative groups based on their political beliefs.” “”It’s political warfare for people to use their political power to go after others because of their points of view,” said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","category-local","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14387,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions\/14387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}