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Posted: Thu Oct 8th, 2009 04:58 am |
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http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/obamas-mosque-vote-legal/
Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. The prohibition applies to all campaigns including campaigns at the federal, state and local level. Violation of this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise taxes.
From the Ohio Against Terror blog comes this: An email is circulating from an Obama campaign official calling for volunteers to spread out to all of the area mosques in Central Ohio this coming Friday for afternoon prayers to bring in the vote for Barack Hussein Obama…
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:37:04 -0500
From: ahmad.sean.khan81@gmail.com
To: [removed]
Subject: This is Ahmad S. Khan (Volunteering for Barack Obama)
Assalam Alaik-kum,
Thanks so much for volunteering to help Senator Barack Obama turn out the Muslim vote inshalla. On Friday March 29th we want to have Muslim volunteers pray at the Mosques during Juma at around 12:45. After prayer when people are socializing outside we want to have the volunteer pass out Obama civil rights literature, faith based literature, general literature, stickers and bumper stickers. In addition we want the volunteers to emphasize that the election is the following Tuesday and encourage them to vote. That way we can reach every Muslim that went to Mosque the Friday before the election inshalla. Attached is a list of every Mosque in Columbus, if we have missed one please let me know ASAP. In addition if there is a particular Mosque you would prefer to attend Juma at and volunteer let me know.
To accomplish this we need to have a training/meeting and have volunteers pick up the necessary materials before volunteers go to the Mosques. We will be having a training/meeting at 9:30 A.M on March 29th at the Obama campus office 2240 N. High Street Columbus Ohio 43201. I will be providing everyone with more information as we get closer to Friday. Please feel free to contact me through email, or call me at 352-874-1195. If my phone is not on please leave me a voice mail with you number and I will get back to you right away. Also please feel free to pass this on to any brothers or sisters who support Senator Obama and would not mind volunteering for just half a day. Thanks again for everything.
Sincerely
Ahmad S. Khan
[It's not entirely clear if Khan meant to say February 29th - this Friday - instead of March 29th, or if they are trying to plan something after the primary. My read based on follow-up emails is that he got the date wrong and this is planning a pre-primary push. I could be wrong on that, but regardless of whether it is Feb. 29 or March 29, it doesn't change the potential illegality of targeting tax exempt institutions.]
Now, there’s no way for the Obama campaign to distance themselves from this potentially illegal effort as the scheduled meeting will be taking place in the Obama OSU campus headquarters. While the mosques themselves might have plausible deniability (we didn’t know they were going to show up), it appears that the Obama campaign may be involved in illegal electioneering by deliberately targeting tax exempt institutions.
Update: It’s not just the mosque vote…IRS is actually investigating a church in Ohio – where are all the faith-based critics now? Apparently Obama was campaiging at his own churches general synod – after promising he wouldn’t…Larry the Lawyer, now what?
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Posted: Thu Oct 8th, 2009 09:23 pm |
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Simple, pure hypocrisy. Obama didn't mean anything he said in the campaign. Not even, "Yes, we can".
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