Steve Lonegan calls for “full and complete audit of IRS practices concerning the deliberate targeting of existing conservative public policy organizations.”
June 20,2013
BOGOTA – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mayor Steve Lonegan urged Cory Booker and other candidates to join him in signing a letter calling on the Inspector General for Tax Administration to conduct a “full and complete audit of IRS practices concerning the deliberate targeting of existing conservative public policy organizations.”
Sponsored by the Free Congress Foundation and the Leadership Institute, the letter cites examples of the IRS’s deliberate targeting of existing conservative groups at the same time at which the IRS was targeting newly established conservative organizations.
“The IRS’s targeting of conservative organizations – both existing and newly formed groups – is an outrageous assault on Americans’ constitutional right to political free speech,” Mayor Lonegan said. “Regardless of one’s political affiliation, we should all be opposed to government agencies targeting people based on their political beliefs. I hope Cory Booker and his colleagues will join me in signing this important letter.”
