Lois Lerner: Under Political Pressure

So, everybody is screaming at us right now ‘Fix it now before the election! Can’t you see how much these people are spending?!?!’'

Lois Lerner in 2010:

'And, what happened last year was the Supreme Court – although the law had kept getting chipped away, chipped away in the Federal election arena – the Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, um, overturning hundred-year-old precedent that said, basically, that corporations could contribute directly to political campaigns and, um, everyone is up in arms cause they don’t like it. The Federal Elections Commission can’t do anything about it and they want the IRS to fix the problem. The IRS laws are not set up to fix the problem.

501(c)(4)s can do straight political activity. They can go out and pay for an ad that says ‘Vote for Joe Blow.’ That’s something they can do as long as their primary activity is their C-4 activity, which is social welfare.

So, everybody is screaming at us right now ‘Fix it now before the election! Can’t you see how much these people are spending?!?!’'

I won’t know until I look at their 990s next year whether they have done more than their primary activity as political or not. So, I can’t tell….

- Lois Lerner, 19 October 2010

Who’s ‘everybody’? The Dems like Schumer and Durbin, who called on the IRS to give extra scrutiny to Tea Party and other conservative groups?  Barack Obama, Jim Messina, David Axelrod, and Valerie Jarrett?

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