{"id":1668,"date":"2006-03-01T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/gop-prompted-audit\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T22:36:12","slug":"gop-prompted-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/gop-prompted-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP-Prompted Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/26\/AR2006022601227.html?referrer=email\">Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit<\/a><br \/>\nGroup Says Probe Was &#8216;Political Retaliation&#8217; by DeLay Allies<br \/>\nBy R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>The Internal Revenue Service recently audited the books of a Texas nonprofit group that was critical of campaign spending by former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) after receiving a request for the audit from one of DeLay&#8217;s political allies in the House.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker, House Ways and Means Committee member Sam Johnson (R-Tex.), was in turn responding to a complaint about the group, Texans for Public Justice, from Barnaby W. Zall, a Washington lawyer close to DeLay and his fundraising apparatus, according to IRS documents. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This audit was political retaliation by Tom DeLay&#8217;s cronies to intimidate us for blowing the whistle on DeLay&#8217;s abuses,&#8221; [the group&#8217;s director and founder, Craig L.] McDonald said. &#8220;Enlisting the IRS to intimidate critics is a dirty trick reminiscent of Richard Nixon. . . . It is not a crime to report a crime, as we did with DeLay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>No wonder New Mexican Republicans assume a recent audit of the state GOP was political &#8212; they assume everyone acts as they do. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit Group Says Probe Was &#8216;Political Retaliation&#8217; by DeLay Allies By R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer The Internal Revenue Service recently audited the books of a Texas nonprofit group that was critical of campaign spending by former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) after receiving a request &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/gop-prompted-audit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP-Prompted Audit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}