CHRIS WALLACE: Why single out Crossroads when you didn’t mention a single liberal group, and there were a bunch that were applying for tax-exempt status at exactly that point with the name “progress” in their name.
SEN. DICK DURBIN: I can just tell you flat-out why I did it. Because that Crossroads organization was boasting about how much money they were raising as a 501(c)(4). Let’s get back to the basics. Citizens United really unleashed hundreds if not thousands of organizations seeking tax-exempt status to play in political campaigns. The law we wrote as Congress said that they had to exclusively be engaged in social welfare and not politics and campaigning. And, so, here is the IRS trying to decide whether or not these organizations really comply with the law. Crossroads was exhibit A. They were boastful about how much money they were going to raise and beat Democrats with.
The way this stuff keeps going with barely a slap on the wrist for the perpetrators, its going to be a felony, complete with prison sentences, for being anything other than a Democrat in this country.
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