The conservative group Citizens United has produced a scathing film about former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and plans to spend six figures promoting it amid McAuliffe’s campaign for governor of Virginia, the group’s leadership told POLITICO. The negative documentary, titled “Fast Terry,” will debut online in the coming weeks. The substance of the […]
With the possible exception of Congress, few government institutions are held in such low regard as the Internal Revenue Service. The nation’s tax collector is never popular, but the IRS has come under intense scrutiny this year amid revelations its agents targeted Tea Party groups in what appears to be a politically motivated crackdown against […]
Opponents of Obamacare are sensing blood. And Citizens United now says it’s prepared to sue the government. “A small organization took on the entire weight of the federal government and was able to prevail,” says president David Bossie, referring to their successful suit over campaign financing in 2010 (that suit boosted the influence of SuperPacs). […]
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The outside group’s pressure campaign has been a multi-pronged offensive with ex-military officials rallying the grassroots base while Washington operatives at American Crossroads, Citizens United and others have mounted an inside-the-Beltway campaign with online videos, letters to Congress and Twitter activity. Read more at Politico here.
To conservatives, the IRS’s scrutiny of groups according to their names and mission statements between 2010 and 2012 put the weight of its enforcement power on the Democrats’ side of the ledger. “I think that if you look at the IRS scandal, we see that the left will stop at nothing to thwart the conservative […]
A Republican poll gives state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) an 8 percentage point lead over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the race for Virginia governor, a reversal of an earlier poll released Thursday. The survey, conducted by Wenzel Strategies on behalf of Citizens United and shared with The Hill, gives Cuccinelli 44 percent support to […]
David Bossie, president of Citizens United, said the IRS scandal is a “clear example of the Chicago-style, win-at-all-costs politics that Obama brought to Washington.” Bossie said Obama set the tone for targeting political critics when he criticized the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which barred the government from limiting corporate spending to influence election campaigns. […]
Meanwhile, outside of Congress, the president of Citizens United, a conservative organization at the center of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision, reacted with anger at the suggestion by Pelosi that the court case was at least partly at fault for IRS conduct. “Nancy Pelosi and her liberal allies’ obsession with the Citizens United Supreme Court […]
David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United, the group that brought the initial lawsuit that the Supreme Court ruled on, said Monday Mrs. Pelosi should go after the IRS, not conservative groups. “It appears that the left will stop at nothing in its quest to silence those who believe differently than them,” Mr. Bossie said […]
David Bossie, executive director of Citizen’s United, the organization that brought the case against the FEC, said the new information should prompt a full congressional investigation. “The IRS clearly saw the Citizens United case as a catalyst to go after conservative groups in the lead-up to President Obama’s re-election,” Bossie said in a statement. “The […]
David Bossie, a former congressional investigator who was pitted against the Clintons in the 1990s, said: “Cheryl Mills was an enforcer, a leader of the Clinton obstruction machine and a lawyer and gatekeeper within the White House. “You didn’t get any closer to the Clintons than her. We now understand that after Benghazi Hillary Clinton […]