Earlier this week, I highlighted the hypocrisy of Sen. Al Franken (D-MN)
in decrying both the political nature of some 501(c)(4) organizations and the biased investigations at the heart of the current IRS scandal.
It gets worse.
The Daily Caller pointed out how Sen. Franken called for the very investigations he now condemns. The Daily Caller reports that Franken said in 2012,
“I think that there hasn’t been enforcement by the FEC and the IRS, and so there are entities that are taking a 501(c)4 status, and under that they’re supposed to have more than half of their activity be non-political,” Franken said. “That’s pretty hinky. I mean, they really aren’t doing that, and that I think there needs to be a look at that—that even under the laws that already exist, there are people who should be disclosing who aren’t. And I think that is where we’re seeing the effect of—lack of effective enforcement and just oversight.”
The Minneapolis
Star Tribune website reports that Franken signed
a letter in February 2012 with other Democrat Senators asking the IRS to investigate 501(c)(4) organizations. It looks like Franken and the other democrats got exactly what they asked for: a partisan witch hunt during an election year.
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