Tea Party Hero Receives Multiple “Visits” From Government Thugs

The notion that certain people, like Catherine Engelbrecht, were targeted because of their political views is a frightening prospect.

Floyd Brown — March 31, 2014

Congressman Darrell Issa, the Chairman of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, is hopping mad.

After months of waiting, the IRS still hasn’t provided his committee with the emails and documents that are necessary for Congress’ ongoing investigation.

Instead, the man Obama hired to clean up the IRS, John Koskinen, continues to stonewall the Committee. He answered questions during testimony and even had the chutzpah to say that providing the IRS documents and emails could take years. Several members were visibly angry.

The flash point was the issue of accessing Lois Lerner’s email. You may recall that Lerner is the IRS official accused of politicizing the tax exempt status for nonprofit organizations. In particular, hundreds of Tea Party organizations had their tax exempt status held up for months, and even years, before approval.

This past week, I heard Catherine Engelbrecht – the Founder of one of the targeted organizations – speak at the United in Purpose conference in Dallas, Texas. Her story was compelling… even frightening.

After joining a local Tea Party, she decided to volunteer on Election Day in Harris County, Texas. She was told by election officials that they desperately needed volunteers all over the country to help facilitate elections.

But while working as a volunteer, Engelbrecht and her group of friends saw numerous violations of law. Voters came in with multiple voter registration cards. Voters allowed election officials to cast their ballots.

Engelbrecht was so moved by the corruption she witnessed that she founded the organization True the Vote. She told us, “I had no idea what would happen to me next.”

Hunted By the IRS

Well, after she began to push for voter integrity, the Left in Harris County became unglued.

Engelbrecht’s entire family was put under the microscope by numerous governmental organizations. Her small manufacturing firm was audited by the IRS. Her personal taxes were audited by the IRS.

Her family-owned company had visits from numerous “alphabet soup” agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Texas version of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

The message was loud and clear: They didn’t want an organization working to protect the integrity of the voting process. If she insisted on monitoring elections, she was going to pay a price.

Read more:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/tea-par...iz3tz6tcmtgp.99

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I suspect that some members of Congress now believe that the only way to clean up the IRS is to abolish it.

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This is the only remedy.

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I suspect that some members of Congress now believe that the only way to clean up the IRS is to abolish it.

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This is the only remedy.

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That is true of a lot of the fourth branch of government.